Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
NEWS OF THE CLUBS
CONDUCTED BY MAMIE LANCASTER.

Womens City Club--Miss Lou E
Ballenger and Miss Fay Bentley will b'
hostesSes at the club tea this afternoon
from 4:30 until 6 o'clock, in the ball
room of the clubhouse, % Jackson
place Mrs. Albert G. Dodge and Mrs
Frederic I. Swift will preside at the tea
tables All club members are invited.
( Mrs. j. Edwin Reid, chairman OF
the Monday bridge section, reports ar
exceptional attendance at the Novem.
her meetings. The officers of the Sec
ton will meet tomorrow at / pm, be-
fore the regular hour for play at IA
o'clock. During the social hour at the
last meeting, Mrs. A. B. Wilson pre-
sided at the tea table, Mrs. Gladys
Ball Middlemiss assisting.
Miss Mary Colt and Miss Pauline B
Sabin were hostesses for November OF
the Tuesday evening free and-easy auc-
tibr section. Miss Lucy Watt is in
structor for the beginners from 8 to 9
O'Clock This is popular section OF
the club with some members making up
their tables and others being placed
as they appear. Members frequently
entertain groups of friends at meetings
of the section. Guest privileges ar
ranged by Miss Media A. Martin, vice
chairman.
The thimble section meets every
Wednesday at IL am, to sew. Many
garments have been fashioned for dis
tribution among the city's needy small
folks in charitable homes.
Mrs. Merritt o. Chance will meet
With members at the regular club men,
berS' business meeting, Wednesday eve
ming at 8 o'clock All committee chair
men will report activities for the month.
Presidents day will be observed
by Mrs Merritt 0. Chance, Thursday
from 3 to pm. at the clubhouse. Mrs.
Frederick l.. Wagar, member OF the
Women's Bureau and Professional Club
of Belfast, Me-, will be a guest of the
president at the club on this date. Tea
will be served. Members are invited
Twentieth Century CIub-The monthly
meeting of the club will be held Thurs
day at IL am, at the National Press
Club. For the program, Mrs. Eugene
ByrneS. chairman of the music session.
has arranged a recital. The artists are
Mrs. Greta Won Bayer, pionist, and
Mrs. Walker K. Wilson, soprano. Mrs.
RawlS will play the accompaniment.
The board of directors will meet to-
morrow at IL am. at the Y. w. G. A.
Mrs w. w. Husband will conduct
the meeting of the international out
look section tomorrow at pm, at the
Y. w. C. A. The subject will be
Greece" A member of the legation
will make an address. Current events
bert GroSvenor. Mrs Harvey Wiley will
speak on Turkey" and Mrs. Grosvenor
jones will discuss Nicaragua.
The parliamentary law section will
meet Tuesday at II am. at the Y. w.
c. A. Miss Emma Strider will preside.
ION Wednesday. through the courtesy
of the director of the Corcoran Gallery
of Art, the art section will be conducted
through the biennial exhibition by
BurtiS Baker of the Corcoran School
faculty. He will meet the party in the
main entrance lobby at pm.
Arts Club of Washington-Club din
ners, teas and chatting dish supperS, with
entertainment features on each occa-
sion, make up the Arts Club program
for December as announced by Mrs
Frederick " Coville, chairman of the
program committee. The months pro-
gram will open with a chatting dish
supper this evening, after which Hugo
linden will speak on modern design
Tuesday evening and Wednesday, De-
cember 5, the Arts Club Players will
give two plays, THE Farewell Supper"
and 1.-THE Mouse" Osgood Holmes will
be host at the first performance and
Dr. and Mrs. John Ryan Devereaux at
the second
M. w. Stirling, newly appointed head
of the Bureau of Ethnology, will be
presented by Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel w.
Herrick December H. After the dinner
Mr.. Stirling will give a talk, illustrated
by moving pictures, on by Airplane
to Pygmyland" December IS, George
Horton, former consul to Smyrna, will
talk on the Ionian Isles. Mr.. and Mrs.
Walden Fawcett will be hosts. F. Shep-
hard Taylor and Charles A. r. Dunn
viii be hosts December % at a cabaret
supper dance.
Three of the popular Thursday din
ners will be held in December. Maj.
and Mrs. william Wolff Smith will pre-
side December 10. Mrs Smith will
give a program "a Peep at Pepys and
His Books" December 20, DR.. and Mrs.
Frederick v. Ccville will be hosts, pre-
senting program of Christmas music
by the Tuesday Evening Music Club,
given in the costumes of old English
carolers. Florence Howard will direct
the Music Club and assisting artists
are Katherine Riggs, harpist; Marjorie
Davis, pianist; Ruth Palmer, pianist,
and Evelyn Scott, violinist. December
81, j. Rowland Bibbins as host, will
present Mrs. Fannie B. Linderman,
Dean of dramatics at the Chicago Up
town Conservatory of Music, who will
give a program of dramatic readings
with musical accompaniments.
Exhibitions by the landscape archi-
tects of Washington, the Washington
Society of Arts and Crafts and a group
of Washington's foremost commercial
Illustrators will be ushered in at two
special receptions and teas at the club
December and %. The Industrial
Arts committee of the club will be
hosts at the first and Felix Mahony