Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-28
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Twentieth Century Club.-The an
nual meeting will be held Thursday,
May 2, at IL am, at the National Press
Club Auditorium. Reports of officers,
committee chairmen and section leaders
for the year will be given and the cleo
ton of officers will take place. The
ballot box will be closed at IL 80 ain.
The election committee consists of Mrs.
Frederic B. Pyle, Mrs. Charles Thomas
Watson, Mrs. Newton L. Collamer, Mrs.
Harrison Stidham, Mrs. Frank W. Bal
lou and Mrs. w. G. MacNulty. The
auditing committee, which will report,
consists of Mrs. Virgil B. Jackson. Miss
Myra Hendley and Mrs. Ray p. Teele.
Luncheon will follow the meeting Mrs.
Donna P. Bonner Is chairman of the
hospitality committee The literature
section of the club will meet tomorrow,
pm, at the residence of Mrs. w. V.
Boyle, 1924 Lamont street. Mrs. N. L.
Collamer will review Victories and Vic
tors" by Oliver: THE Case of Sergt.
Grischa" will be discussed by Mrs
Charles Cooke; Mrs. Jere Crane will
review THE Biography of Herman
Melville. Mrs. George r. Putnam will
preside. The hostesseS are Mrs. H. 8
Lemon. Mrs. N. L. Collamer. Miss Clara
Herbert, Mrs. Richard Stimson. Mrs.
Edward B. Clark. Miss Martha Hooper,
Mrs. L. F. Schnieckebier and Mrs.
Arthur Spencer. The business section,
Mrs. l.. H. Simon, chairman. and the
parliamentary law section, Miss Emma
Strider, chairman. will give a Joint
picnic at the home of Mrs. E. c.
Thomas Silver Spring, Md, on Friday.
May 3, at ii am. The committee on
program is composed of Mrs. L. L.
Harter and Mrs. Charles T. Watson
The hospitality committee is composed
of Mrs. Caleb Miller and Mrs. E. c.
Robinson.
Woman's Club Of Bethesda.-The
dramatic committee of the fine arts
department announce the presentation
of interesting dramatic and musical pro-
grams on the evenings of Friday and
Saturday, May and 4. Two plays arc
to be given, one of them prize winning
play in the Arts Club play-writing con-
test, written by Mrs. Edwin w. Etz,
chairman Of art under the fine arts
department. Mrs. Maude Howell Smith,
chairman of the department. is cast in
this play. which Is being directed by
Mr.. Porter of the Arts Club. Mrs r. S.
Marshall, acting chairman of drama
is in charge of arrangements for the
entertainments.
Mrs. Henry H. Classic, chairman of
music, is arranging special musical
program to be presented at the last
regular club meeting for the year on
May IA. An outgrowth of the music
appreciation work started under the
auspices of the motion picture COM
mittee OF this club last year in CO.
operation with Harriet Hawley Locher,
director of education Of the Stanley Co.
of America, is the recognition of
music week." which begins May s, by
special musical programs to be played
by the organists in number of loca!
motion picture houses in the city and
suburbs.
The Washington Readers Club held
its thirteenth annual Shakespeare ban
quet at the Kennisaw, Sixteenth and
Irving streets, April %, at pm. About
10 assembled in the dining room and
found their places at the tastefully
decorated tables. The color scheme was
pink and carnations with feathery green
sprays for contrast. After dinner had
been served, the president of the club,
Mrs. Constance Goodman, started the
entertainment feature of the evening by
spearean play, to which each member
responded with quotation. The pro-
gram OF the evening was opened by
Miss Evelyn Robb Allensworth guest
artist, who delighted with two piano
solos, Soaring" by Schumann, and
"Scherzo Trio" Sonata, Opus 2, No. 3,
by Beethoven. Mrs. Goodman told
some OF her experiences in Shake
speare cities she had visited and par
ticularly Of Stratford on Avon. She
described the home where Shakespeare
lived, the garden, the school and the
church, which he frequented, and to
cities In other countries where some Of
the characters he drew so faithfully
might have dwelt. Harry Angelica. an
other guest artist. accompanied by Mrs.
Angelica, sang "This Would / Do by
William r. Chapman; "a Pastoral" by
Florence T. Maley, and April Fool"
by Garland. Maude Howell Smith, in
her black robe and cap, recited 1.-THE
Mercy Plea" from the Merchant of
Venice Then MFR. and Mrs. Angelica
favored with another group of songs:
lorna" by Luigi Demo: la Spag-
nola," by DR.. Chiara, and La Compania
di San Guisto," by Columbino Aroma.
Miss Allensmith played THE Lark" by
Balikareff and "Troika en- Traineau,"
by Tschaikowsky. The program was
closed by a costuned scene from Romeo
and Juliet" In which Juliet was played
by Miss Rosemary Arnold and the
nurse by Mrs. May Jameson Bryant.
Much credit is due the banquet COM
mittee for arranging so successful an
entertainment. The club extended
sympathy and sent a card of greeting
to Mrs. Isabel Pechin Macarthur, who
h. had tab -
Ill and was spending the evening in a
hospital
League of American Pen Women Of
the District.-The reception Thursday
night given by the new executive board
to the retiring officers was an enjoyable
event. Receiving the guests with the
new president, Mrs. E. Richard Cash,
were the other newly elected officers
and committee chairmen. Mrs. Dorothy
De Muth Watson, who was In charge OF
the program, presented George Boucher.
baritone, in songs, accompanied by Miss
Kathleen Hill Rails Mr.. Boucher won
the Atwater Kent radio addition last
year. Mrs. Theodore Tiller was assisted
in serving by Miss Louis Worden, Miss
Edith Parker, Miss Bessie Palms, Miss
Dorothy Gatschel and Miss Katherine
Jacobs. Tomorrow night the monthly
business meeting will be held. at which
league activities for the coming year
will be outlined. On Tuesday at 4:30
pm. the monthly fellowship tea will
take place at the clubrooms Miss
Katherine H. Wooten, chairman, has
announced a program by league mem
bers, which will start promptly at S
o'clock. Mrs. Dawson Olmstead will
furnish musical numbers. Miss Flor
ence Barnes will read several OF her own
poems and Mrs. James T. Watson, jr.,
will read an original story. The oper-
alton OF news bureau will be discussed
by Mrs. Aaron Newman and publicity
writing by Miss Patricia Poe Bennett.
Among the guests at the tea viii be DR..
and Mrs. Dunbar Rowland Of Mississippi.
Mrs. Rowland is Pen Woman and has
been in Washington attending the con-
yentions Of the various patriotic So
cieties. DIR. Rowland is the State IL
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