The Washington times., 1929-04-13
NEWS OF WASHIN NGTON SOCIETY
Stop Signal Flashed for Man
AT Pen Women s. Breakfast
Brevity and Variety
Mark Speeches at Great
Gathering of Writers

Gatherll1g OF writers
4 At the Authors Break
fast. Of the League Of Amer
lean Pen Women yesterday
the ssstop" signal was
flashed first on . man.
Traffic lights we're used to
'sroute" the speeches. Most
OF the women on the pro-
gram went through on the
green, but j. Walker Nc
Epadden, who talked Of his
experiences from cub re-
porter to editor, caught the
red light. He didn't pay
much attention toNrules, but
then, as he confessed, he
had been busy all through
luncheon fixing the traffic
cop, pretty Miss Dorothy
Nicholson.
Frontiers Of Mystery
Several hundred guests had
gathered ut the willard for this
annual event, with . few men
as islands in an ocean of
women. Col. q. Alexander Pow
ell, war correspondent, explorer
and writer Of travel books,
seems to have been the celebrity
in-chief, as he spoke before the
three-minute limit went on. He
told Of penetra ating TO the from
tiers Of mystery to find, of late
years, that some enterprising
woman writer had usually been
there before him.
Japanese Poems
sGrace Thompson seton, for
raer president of the league. spoke
on Woman Writers of the ORR
eTltnS with engaging references to
rnaple-viewing parties and moon
gazing fetes IN Japan and those
N or 80 syllable poems which
are unique In literature.
Harold Kellocls contributed rec
elections of Houdini in q new
role-tlle great lover. who had
affair after affair, but all with
his own wife. Are Writers Peo-
ple?'' had been chosen as the
subject of Elizabeth Collister's
talk, which dealt with the anus
ing vagaries Of those whom Bob
Davis-3amous editor and discov.
erer Of keniuses-Was wont to
call ''the immortal abnormal"
Poems
Angela Morgan and Caroline!
Giltinan contributed poems their
own. Others at the speakers Ia.
bles most OF whom had d few
words to, say, were Representative
Ruth Hanna Mccormick, Repre-
sentative Ruth Baker Pratt, Berthe
X. Mellett, author Of 'sThe Elling-
ton Brat: Mary VI Charlton, edi.
tor Of the Peoples Home Jour
nal; Henry Woodhouse, president
Of the Aerial League; Grace Ear
ing Stone, Sallie v. Pickett, Mary
M. Atkeson Moore, Caroline Bean
and Rafaelo Diaz.
Mrs. Bean, widely known as an
artist, was exhibiting q portrait
of Mrs. Clarence NJ. Busch. ma.
tional president Of the League of
American Pen Women, and a bust
Of Mrs. 3. D. 2. N. Southworth,
and Senior Diaz, of the Metropoli-
tan Opera Company, contributed
. stirring group OF songs.
Traffic Rules
Mrs. Busch made the address
Of welcome and promulgated q
witty set Of traffic rules, then
turned over the chair to Mrs.
Louis N. Geldert Grace Duffie
Boylan) as toastmistress. 1t was
Mrs. Geldert who organized the
first Authors Breakfast q dozen
years ago.
Mrs. Harlan Fioke Stone and
/ Mrs. Robert Patterson Lamont
were guests Of Mrs. Henry AL.
yah Strong-almost the first
. glimpse Washington society has
had of the wife of the new Sec.
retary of Commerce. Mrs. Strong
AlSO OuCSEbdAHSQ MES. y. marry
Coyington, Mrs. John Wesley Car
ron, Mrs. Wade Ellis, Mrs. Her.
bert Grtggs, Of Tacoma, Wash:
Mrs. John Walker Holcombe.
Mrs. James Pilling, Mrs. A. B.
Frowbridge, who had with, her
Mrs. Arnold Klebs, Of Switzerland.
and Mrs. Joseph e. Washington.
Mrs. Henry r. Dimock was
present and at the same table
were Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman
and her guest, Baroness Hauens-
chield, wife Of the Counselor Of
the Austrian egation; Mrs.
Jacob Leander Loose, Mrs.
Thomas n. c. Reed, Mrs. Paul
johnson, Mrs. Lucy Seward
Noble and Mrs. Corinne Connolly
and her guest.
Mrs. Homer Hoch, wife of Rep.
resentative Hoch of Kansas, was
hostess to company of ten with