Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-06

| MRS. CHESTER W.
! Before her marriage to Mr.. LOCKWOOD
Marjorie Ponder A
tea table were Miss May Clark and Mrs.
! Frank B. King.
| Former Commissioner at
Georgia Health Resort.
The former Commissioner of the Dis
| trict and Mrs. Rudolph are spending
the early Spring season at the Bon Air
Vanderbilt, Augusta, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward r. Stotesbury
| have closed their home at Palm Beach
and left for their estate at Chestnut
Hills, Pa.
Mrs. H. c. sturhahn and her son
| Lawrence of New York are visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. David Lawrence,
on Nebraska avenue. Mrs. Sturhahn
was formerly Miss Etienne Lawrence.
Mrs. Austin Mccarthy will leave
Washington for Charleston, w. Va.
| Tuesday to attend the annual State
meeting of the Colonial Danes Of
America, which convenes there on
| April 10.
Miss Elizabeth Towne and Miss Kay
Morris were joint hoSteSSes at delight
| full dance at the Bethesda Women's
Club on the evening Of April 4. The
$50 guests were largely students and
alumni of Western High School. where
the young hostesses are members OF
the senior class.
Miss MORA Dawson OF Bronxville,
N. Y, is passing her holidays with Miss
Helen Rayner at her home on Thirtieth
street in Cleveland Park.
Mrs. William M. Freeny entertained
at tea for her daughter, Miss Freeny
in honor of Miss Dawson yesterday
afternoon. Their Cathedral Mansions
apartment was exquisitely decorated
with japanese cherry blossoms and
forsythia. Miss Margaret Freeny and
Miss Alice Freeny entertained with
musical selections. Among the guests
| were Miss Anna Moore Converse, Miss
jeanette Crabbe, Miss Jean Kelly, Miss
Jeanne Kinsman, Miss Mildred Chapen
Miss Elizabeth Offutt, Miss Betty Anne
Fieser, Miss Lorraine German, Miss
Katharine Porter, Miss Margaret San
ford, the Misses Stein and the Misses
Rayner.
Judge Mary O'Toole, one of the
three trustees of the Community Drama
Guild of Washington, will act as toast
mistress at the opening dinner of the
drama conference, which is to take
place Monday evening at $50 o'clock
at Mckinley High School, when the
chief speakers of the occasion will be
Mrs. Frederic e. harrington and Mr..
Denis E. Connell.
Mrs. harrington, who has spent a
fortnight in New York City, will take
for her subject at the dinner, "The 1929
Season in the New York Theater." A
musical program has likewise been ar
ranged as a feature of the dinner by
the committee on arrangements, which
Is headed by Mrs Philip Sidney Smith.
The soloists will be Mr.. George H.
O'Connor, accompanied by Mr.. Matt
Horne, and Miss Eugenia Botkin, ac-
companied by Mrs. Laura Fairchild
Ward.
Reservations for the dinner on Mon
day night. as well as for all sessions
during the week of the drama confer
ence, are open to all lovers Of the
drama in the city. The dinner list will
that time the Office of the Drama Guild
in the Franklin Administration Build
ing will look after that feature.
Mrs. Eldon Paul King viii enter
tain at luncheon today at the Univer-
sity Women's Club, when her guests
will be Mrs. John w. Summers, wife
of Representative Summers, of Wash
ington, and their daughter, Mrs. With
erall, of Evanston, ILL.,; Mrs. M. H.
Porter, Mrs. Samuel B. Milton, Mrs.
Preston Alexander, Miss G. H. Rogers
and Mrs. Ellsworth Alvord.
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DR.. and Mrs. Albert Joseph Carrico
are at the Hotel Dennis, Atlantic City,
N. j., where they will remain until after
the middle Of the month.
Society Of Virginia to
Entertain Official Guests.
The Society of Virginia viii give its
annual Easter ball this evening in the
bathrooms of the Willard Hotel. AS this
viii be the last entertainment of the sea-
son, the several committees have form
ulated plans that the thousand or more
members of the society may get together
and become personally acquainted.
with this in view, one or more boxes
in the bathrooms will be assigned to
each congressional district of the State
and will be attended by the sponsor Of
the society representing the particular
district. This will afford an opportunity
for the members of the respective con-
gressional districts to become &C
Quainted.
Boxes are also being reserved for the
senior and junior Senators OF Virginia.
which will be attended, respectively, by
Mrs. Lena Epperly Macdonald. queen
of sponsors, representing the State OF
| Virginia, and Miss Frances Carter Lin
foot, maid OF sponsors, representing the
District Of Columbia. II The following
sponsors In the order named repre-
senting the 10 congressional districts OF
| Virginia viii attend the congressional
boxes: Miss Lillian ". Morris, Miss
Douglas Ross, Miss Lillian 3. Fleming,
Miss Tiyce Slenp, Miss Ann Graves
| Mcclure, Miss Lucy G. Hodges, Miss
| Hilda e. Neister, Miss Virginia s. Faust.
Miss Elsie Hartman and Miss Anna =.
Hubbard.
Former Representative Joseph r. Deal,
president of the society, is chairman Of
| the general committee and has arrang-
ed for number of innovations between
| dances The entertainment committee
| is headed by the former president. Mr..
]. Claude Byars and includes Mr.. F. g.
Baggarly and Mrs. Maud Howell Smith,
| Mrs. Fred r. Meyers heads the publicity
committee. while former President F. g.
Baggarly Is chairman Of the music and
floor COMMITTEES.
Dancing win start promptly ct ?
O'clock.
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