Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03

Jamie LANCASTER.
the talk All members of the club are
invited to make reservations. Guest
privileges.
Miss Helen Wilbar will meet with
members of the junior section Friday
evening at o'clock This section is
planning an old-fashioned party. The
gowns of yesterday will be worn, games
and contests popular in the past will be
revived and participated in. Awards will
be made for costumes worn. March 20
is the date of the party. Mrs. Patrick
Gallagher is chairman. All members of
the club are invited to attend.
Twentieth Century Club..-The monthly
! meeting of the club will be held Thurs
day at II am. in the auditorium of the
National Press Club. DR.. Taliaferro
Clark of the public Health Service will
speak OH THE Duties and the Respon-
sibilities of the United States Health
Service" DR.. and Mrs. Clark and
Surg. Gen. and Mrs. Hugh S. Cumming
will be guests of the club at luncheon
| following the meeting. The interna-
tional outlook section. Mrs. W. w. Hus-
band, chairman will meet at 2 pm.
March at the Y. w. C. A., the speaker
70 be announced later. Mrs. Robert G.
Howard will talk on 1.-THE Roman Cues
tion," Mrs. Elwood P. Morey On Spain
and Mrs. Ernest p. Bicknel on AT
| ghanistan."
Miss Janet Richards opens the Arts
Club program FOR March with a talk
this evening on Vital Issues of the
Hour" This will be preceded by a
chaflng-dish supper, at.which Miss Isa-
bel McDougall will be the hostess. On
| Tuesday evening Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Jay Staley will be the hosts, with Miss
Miksa Merson, the Hungarian pianiste,
as the special guest. Miss Merson will
give a recital. On Thursday evening
Mrs. Nellie w. Brenizer will be the
| hostess, with Mr.. and Mrs. Ridgely
Chapline as guests Of honor Mrs.
Chapline will give a talk, entitled
Browsing Around the United States"
The District League of American Pen
Women held its monthly business meet
ing Monday evening. February IS, when
the report of the nominating committee
was read. The candidates for the en-
suing year are as follows: President,
Mrs Charles Aug Hawley and Mrs.
Mrs Ann Manchester ard Mrs. Richard
Yates; second vice president, Mrs. Dean
Cherrier and Miss Ethel Cawood re-
cording secretary, Mrs. AZalea Badgley
and Miss Katherine Jacobs; correspond
ing secretary, Miss Isabel Story and
Mrs. Ernest Virgins; treasurer, Mrs.
Earnest Grant and DR.. Frances Butts;
auditor, Mrs Charles Leonard Cham
bers and Mrs. Nancy North; librarian,
Mrs. Angela Barr and Miss Marie Red
fern; historian, Mrs. Minnie Briggs and
Mrs. Harry B. Hunt: registrar, Mrs.
Florence Barnes and Miss Louise Wor-
den; parliamentarian, DR.. Elnora Volk-
mar and Mrs. @. G. White; legal ad-
wiser, Miss Jean Stephenson.
On Tuesday afternoon at the Fellow
ship tea Mrs. William H. Moses read
her orle-act play, THE Bolted Door"
Mrs. Amos Fries gave talk on Pub
licity" The music by Mrs. Sprinkle,
pianist, and Mrs. Manning. sOprano.
was a feature. Mrs. Ernest Virgins
read poems. Tuesday evening Mrs.
Nina Reed gave a talk on Experimental
Government in Russia" for the current
events group of which DR.. Frances Butts
is chairman. DR.. Butts gave an outline
of her plans while attending the edu-
cational conference in Geneva this
Summer.
On Thursday afternoon the poetry
group met at the home of Mrs Flor
ence Barnes, when Mrs. Lars Anderson
gave a review of her book on Africa.
Mrs. Dean Cherrier read several poems
from Windows of Gold" and three
written by Miss Anne Morrow.
Mrs. Turin Boone announced con-
tinuation of the present exhibits and
special exhibit of Mrs. Florence Esta-
brooks paintings this week.
The league will hold open house dur
ing the inauguration period and will
serve tea from 4 to 6 to members and
friends.
Business and Professional Women's
Club of the District Of Columbia.-TEe
semi-montilly meeting of the club was
held February IS at the Hamilton Hotel
The president. Mrs. Sheppard Knapp
Haynes, presided at the business ses
sion and then turned the program over
to Miss Penelope Cobb, program chair
man.
Miss Cobb first introduced Miss Cath
crime Jeffrey, soprano. who was ac-
companied by Miss Roslyn Carter. Miss
Jeffrey sang several selections and then
Miss Stella Clodfelter introduced DR.
Earle Whitley, pastor of the Vermont
Avenue Christian Church, who gave a
review Of THE Bridge Of San Luis
Rey"
Miss Grace Chapman, acting record
ing secretary called the roll and each
member responded with a current event.
Miss Clofelter of Senator Dale's Of
| flee reported on the game refuge bill.
lust passed. Miss Cobb is much in
| terested in landing fields for seaplanes
and DR. Everhart gave funny sketch
of the Moving Day" of the Coolidges.
Miss Pidgeon is interested in the Elm
| stein theory.
The club has added the following
members since the last meeting:
Miss j. Beatrice Bowman. superin-
| tendent, Navy Nurse Corps, Navy De-
partment; Miss Mary Elizabeth Pidseon,
assistant editor, United States Women s
Bureau; Miss Katharine j. Lenroot,
assistant to chief, Children's Bureau;
Miss Charl Ormond Williams. Nationa!
Education Association Education chair
man for the National Federation of
Business and Professional Womel's
Clubs, Inc): Miss Mary Anderson, di-
rector, Woman's Bureau, Department
of Labor; Miss Agnes l.. Peterson.
assistant director. Woman's Bureau. De-
partment of Labor, and Mrs. Medill Nc
Cormick, ongresswoman -at-large, State
of Illinois, publisher, Rockford Daily
Republic.
The Washington Readers Club held
! its second recital of the season at the
! auditorium of the Jewish Community
Center, Sixteenth and @ streets, on
February Is. The program was opened
by musical numbers. waikiki Is Call
| ing me-" and "Salut D'Amour." played
by Mrs. Douglas Tschiffely Miss Violet
Macintyre and Miss Annabel Bird, the
Nordica Hawaiian Guitar Trio, &C
companied by Prof w. T. Holt Next
was reading "Atalanta" (after the
race by Roselle MERCER Montgomery
given by Dorothy A. Lawrence An
other reading. 1.-The Obstructive Hat
in tho pit 1t Anckn,,A r,nc ,rnen,,fnd