The Washington times., 1928-01-18
CONGRESSIONAL
CLUB FETES
VARIED
Musicale Planned; Good
Housekeeping Morning
a Huge Success

MEMBERS Of the Congressional
w Club are looking forward with
interest to the weekly tea on
Friday afternoon when WiIllam
Rellar, a gifted young pianist, VIII
give q. recital. Mrs. Henry Alien
Gooner. chairman of the entertain
ment eommitte, is the 'impresa.
rio, for this event. A pupil OF
Josef I,heyinne, famous Russian
musician. Mr.. Bellar holds the
JulIiard scholarship. He has taken
4 number of music prizes in Chi
cago, and in 1925 won the piano
prize awarded by the National
Federation OF Music Clubs.
The first of a proposed series OF
clllh Iuncheons will be held next
Thursday. Reservations for W
have already been made and Mrs.
Peter Goelet Gerry, president OF
the club. is among those VINO VIII
entertain groups OF guests. Next
Monday there will be q matinee
card party at the club.
Last evening there was also 2
card party at the club. the guests
making up II tables Of bridge.
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nNE of the major events OF
~ this busy week at the Con-
gressional Club was the Good
Housekeeping morning" yester-
day. This was one of a series OF
literary programs arranged by
Mrs. Henry Wilder Reyes. Mem.
bers OF the staff Of Good House.
* ~ nIa II
is a regular contributor, spoke
briefly on what they are running
in their magazine and why. Save
: for DR.. Harvey Wiley, q resident
Washingtonian, who gave a word
of greeting to his c0-workers on
the magazine, the only man on
the program was Henry Ives
Cobb, ir.. who runs the depart
nnent OF interior decorating. he
II the son-in-law of George Wick
ersharn. who was in President
Taft's Cabinet, and WAS a class
mate of Senator Gerry at Harvard.
Mrs. Margaret Stone, fashion
editor of Good housekeeping. IL
Illustrated her talk with a living
model. whose costume was so eI.
fectiye that one Of the club mem
hers proceeded to order gown
Just like it. -, o..,.,,
entertained at luncheon at her
home for the clubs guests OF
honor.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Henry
IT Rousseau will entertain st tea
saturday afternoon from 5 to
o'clock in their home in George
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Stewart en-
tartained at tea. yesterday in their
anartment at the MayfloWer.
Mrs. Samuel Burleigh Mutton
entertained at bridge luncheon
Yesterday afternoon at her nome
in Sixteenth Street. Her guests
included Mrs. William u. NC.
Master, Mrs. F. G. Billiard, Mrs.
Amos A. Fries, Mrs. RIcnard
yates. Mrs. Charles. e. Winter
Mrs. Royal C.. Johnson, Mrs.
.Ioseph J. ManIoves Mrs.. Henry
r. Rathbone, Mrs Manrice III.
Thatcher, Mrs. Albion w. Tuck,
Mrs. George Baxter, Mrs. Eliza
beth Biggers, Mrs. Joseph J.
Mansfield, Mrs. Frederick john
son, Mrs. David Meekison, Mrs.
Elizabeth Haag, Mrs. Charles J.
Thompson, Mrs. Eldon r. King,
Mrs. C. Percy Stone, Mrs. o.. A.
N. McKimmie, Mrs. Allard III.
Gasque, Mrs. Edward Hayes and
Mrs. Edward Nelson Dingley.
Mrs. M. III. Smith, of Beverly,
Mass, is staying at the Grace
Dodge Hotel. She came to Wash
ington to attend the third con-
ference on the Cause and Cure of
War and Is accompanied by Mrs.
B. G. Lacon, also Of Beverly.
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The naval attache of the Bra
lillian embassy, Capt. Frederick
VilIar, entertained at luncheon
today at the Army and Navy Club
in compliment to the retiring
naval attache of the Japanese
embassy, Capt. Isoroku Yama-
moto, who is leaving soon for
Toxic.
Consul General and Mrs. w.