Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-09
TRAFFIC SIGNALS
IN new SERVICE
Red and Green Flashes to
Regulate Speechmaking at
Authors Breakfast.

Speakers at the authors breakfast of
the National League of American Pen
Women, to be held in the Willard Hotel
Friday morning, will be started and
stopped by the red and green flashes
of a regulation traffic signal, loaned for
the occasion by the Traffic Bureau.
Miss Dorothy Nicholson, vice presi-
dent of the Junior Writers, will don the
uniform of traffic officer and will
manipulate the device.
Mrs. Clarence M. Busch, national
president of the Pen Women, will pre-
side at the breakfast. She will be as
sisted as toastmistress by Mrs. Louis N.
league, who inaugurated the annual
authors breakfast six years ago.
The breakfast is to be the opening
function of the two-day annual meeting
of the league. All sessions will be held
in the Willard Hotel The District
branch of the league will keep open
house both afternoons at its clubrooms,
1108 Sixteenth street.
Annual Meeting Set for Saturday.
On Saturday morning the annual
meeting will be held with Mrs. Busch in
the chair. The session will open at 10
o'clock and the order of business calls
for the address of welcome by Mrs.
Busch as national president; reports of
State vice presidents. branch presidents,
national officers, and of Miss Florence
E. Ward, national chairman of the
clubhouse committee General discus
sion will precede adjournment at
o'clock.
The afternoon session will open at
o'clock. with DR.. Mary Meek Atkeson.
first national vice president, in the
chair. Reports of national standing
committees will be received from Mrs.
Grace Thompson Seton, chairman Of
organization: Mrs. Charles Augustus
Hawley, chairman of ways and means;
Mrs. G. G.. White, chairman of men,
bership: Mrs. Jesse w. Nicholson, chair
man of printing; Mrs. Daniel C. Chace.
chairman of publicity, and Mrs. Nina
Swain Reed, editor of the Bulletin.
DR.. Atkeson will talk on the service
rendered to members Of the organiZa-
ton by the manuscript service bureau,
of which she Is chairman, and Mrs. Ida
Connelly Peters. editor of the depart
ment of markets in the bulletin, will
discuss Markets"
General discussion will follow and the
meeting will adjourn at o'clock.
Special Entertainment Planned.
Saturday at 8:15 o'clock the league
will entertain its members, their guests
and the general public at a musicale In
the auditorium of the Red Gross Build
ing. on Seventeenth street, when the
National String Quartet of this city will
play the composition which received the
prize award In the recent national mu-
sic contest of the league. "Adagia for
String Quartet" composed by Josephine
Crew Aylwin Of Oakland, Calf. Fran
cisca Vallejo of San Francisco won
both honorable mentions in the contest
and will be represented on the program
by these two numbers. q song and a
violin solo A Quintet for Piano and
Strings" by Mary Howe of this city.
and Quartet for Strings" by Ethel
Glen Hier Of New York City. will also
be given, as will piano solos by Mary
Lindsay-Oliver of New York. No
tickets are required for attendance at
this concert, according to announcement
by Mrs. Dorothy De Muth Watson,
chairman of arrangements.
Mrs. Watson also is staging a con-
cert next Sunday afternoon In the Pom
peian room of the Congressional Coun-
try Club, when at O'Clock she will
present some of the woman composers
Of the league. including Phyllis Fergus
of Chicago, who was chairman Of this
years music contest.