Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-31

the patroness committee, and an addi-
tional list of patroneSSeS includes Mrs.
Patrick J. Hurley, Mrs. James j. Davis,
Mrs. Ernest Lee Jahnke, Mrs. David s.
ingalls,, Mrs. Eugene Hale, Mrs. B. H.
Buckingham, Mrs. John Hays Ham
mond, Mrs. Wardell Mccormick, Mrs.
William Mcclellan Ritter, Mrs. William
Sampson, Mrs Charles Boughton Wood.
Mrs. James z. Freeman, Mrs. James
Carroll Frazer, Mrs. Stokes Halketf,
Mrs. Henry Aloah Strong, Mrs: George
G. Thorpe, Mrs. E. r. Alexander, MRS.
Henry w. Fitch, Mrs. Clifford Pincnot
and Miss Belle Gurnee.
Mrs. Merritt o. Chance, president Of
the Women's City Club, will be hostess
and will be assisted by members OF the
board of directors and officers of the
club, when "open house" will be OBJ
served in the club house, at % jackson
place. tomorrow afternoon, from 4:3O 10
6 o'clock. Assisting will be Mrs. Tru-
man Able, Mrs. Patrick Gallagher. MRS.
Goodwin Price Graham, Mrs. Gladys
Ball Middlemiss, Mrs. Lawton Miller,
Miss Julia Bannigan, Mrs. Emile
Berliner, Miss Helen M. Brown, Mrs.
Frances D. Merchant, Mrs. Virgil O.
liam Lee Corbin, Miss Mary E. Lazenby,
Mrs. j. Garfield Riley. Judge Mary
O'Toole, Mrs. Bruce Baird, Mrs. L. G.
Cramton, Miss Susan c. Baker and Miss
Elaine Eppley.
The League of American Pen Women
of the District will keep "open house"
tomorrow in the studio, in Stoneleigh
Court, from until o'clock. The presi-
dent, Mrs. z. Richard Gasch, and the
members of the executive board and
committee chairmen extend q cordial
invitation to all members Of the league
and their friends to call.
A number of delegates to the meet
ings Of the American Sociological So
ciety, which are being held in Washing,
ton, were entertained at an informal
supper in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. FL
wood Street. in Foxhall Village, last eve-
ming, the guests including Mr.. Hornell
Hart, Bryn Mawr College; Mr.. Walter
Petit, New York School of Social work;
DR.. Stuart Queen, University OF Kansas;
DR.. Niles Carpenter, University OF Buff
falo; Mr.. Walter West, executive secre-
tary American Association of Social
Workers; DR.. Leroy Bowman, Columbia
University; DR.. F. Stuart Chaplin, edi-
tor-in-chief Social Science Research
of Chicago; DR.. Franklin H. johnson,
william and Mary College; DR.. G. A.
Ellwood. University of Missouri; DR.. T..
L. Morgan, University of Missouri; DR..
Jesse F. Steiner, Tulane University; Mr..
Edwin Eklund, director Community
Chest of Springfield, Ill; Mr.. Frank j.
Bruno, Washington University; DR.. L.
N. Sims, Oberlin College; DR.. @. p.
Wyckoff, Tulane University; DR.. Karl
j. Alter, National Catholic School Of
Social Work; DR.. William j. Kerby, Ma
TTNfU ~ .Tnhn
O'Grady, National Conference OF Cath
Ollie Charities. and DR.. D. w. Willard,
George Washington University.
The board Of lady managers Of the
George Washington University Hospital
will meet in the Mayflower Hotel We'd
nesday, January 8, instead Of tomor-
row. which is the regular day.
The library committee reported q
most successful book tea held in the
residence of Mrs. William Hill. More
than 200 books were given toward the
library for patients in the hospital.
Members of the Washington Inter-
national Assembly are taking keen
interest in the costume ball to be given
Monday evening in the willard Hotel.
under the auspices of the board of
governors of the assembly. and large
AS well as a brilliant company is ex-
pected. Mr.. Walter D. Davidge has
accepted the Craftsmanship of the
mems floor committee, which viii be
made up Of men of prominence in vari-
Gus fields of national and international
life, with goodly number Of the
younger element.
A charming feature of the evening
will be the special dances by two New
York artists, Mr.. and Mrs. Lester
Shafer, formerly of this city, but now
Denis at their Denishawn studio. They
will be in costume and have chosen for
presentation here a "Directoire Valse"
and Garland Plastique-an Idyll."
They are well known here, Mrs. Shafer
having been Miss Marian Chace, whose
artistic work, under the direction Of