Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
BY CORINNE FRAZIER.
A GOOD slogan for our country
n IN connection with the

the League, is porn the gTedteSe eApeLA'
ment of nations working together IN th$
history of the world, she declared
THE outstanding effort of this grour
of Sc powers is for universal peace. Il
It were a united effort. with the Unitec
States inside the circle. the road woule
be less thorny and success more certain.
Mrs. Bright was an interested observes
at The sessions of the League OF Nations
at Geneva last Summer. and included II
her talk vivid description of what she
saw and heard and felt during hel
attendance.
Mrs. Kate Trenholm Abrams, director
Of the Washington Information Once oil
the League of Nations Association, in
the role of toastmistress, introduced tbs
speaker
Among those entertaining at tbs
luncheon were Mrs. Jacqueline Mason
Mrs. Edwin K. Campbell, Mrs. George
M. Eckels. Mrs. w. w. Hubbard and
Mrs. Roberts.
Tomorrow. Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews
will be the guest speaker. She VII
address the club on Monticello"
CLUBWOMEN will have an oppor.
"a tunity to hear one of the outStand-
ing authorities on League of Nations
subjects. Tuesday evening, when Wolf
Won Dewall, foreign editor of the
Frankfurtw Zeitung, addresses a dis
tinguished gathering at the dinner to be
given in his honor by the American
Association of University Women at the
clubhouse on street.
Mr.. Won Dewall will speak especially
on Germany's position in the League
today. He has been touring this coun-
try under the auspices of the League OF
Nations Association, speaking before
clubs and organizations, many of them
being women's groups. He has COM
pleted his travels in the West and will
60 from here to Princeton, N. j., and
thence through the northeastern part
Of the country.
Mrs. Karl Fenning, president of the
A. A. u. W, in Washington, will pre-
side at tbs dinner Tuesday evening and
will present the speaker. Reservations
for the affair which are not confined
to members of the association. may be
made through club headquarters. .
Mrs. Kate Trenholm Abrams is ar
ranging the complete program for Mr..
Won Dewan and his wife, on their
are staying at the Mayflower with Mr..
and Mrs. Fred T. F. Dumont, will be
received by the President and enter
tanned at the German embassy during
their brief stay.
FRESH evidence of the interest being
taken by clubwomen in the new
movement in art, literature and music
comes to us in the program of lee
lures being sponsored this season by
the American Association of Univer-
sity Women.
Modern music viii be discussed next
Friday night in the second notable lee
ture In this group. Aaron Copeland,
modern composer and lecturer in the
New York School of Musical Research,
will speak on the modern composers
and Interpretation of modern music.
at the Y. w. G. A. auditorium at 8:15
o'clock. His lecture will be preceded
by dinner given by the members of
the A. A. u. w. in his honor. Modern
painters already have been brought be-
fore the group by noted lecturer, and
later in the Spring, Josef Hergesheimer
novelist, will discuss the modern school
Of literature.
X r
MRS. CLIFFORD IRELAND, well
AVA known in Washington, her hus-
band having been O member OF Con-
gress from Illinois few years ago, has
been elected president of the newly or
ganized branch of the League of Amer
lean Pen Women in the downstate sec
ton. The organization meeting was
held recently at the Women's City Club
In Peoria, Mrs. Ireland's home, with
Mrs. Josephine Craven Chandler, State
~ vice president of the league in Illinois,
presiding. In addition to Mrs. Ireland
vice president, secretary-treasurer
and auditor were elected
The new unit will be known at head
quarters as the Springfield branch, but
will be named locally the Abraham Lin
coin branch. Its activities will embrace
members in the downstate cities and
meetings will be held in Bloomington,
Jacksonville, Springfield and Peoria.
Poets among the Alabama Pen
Women have received important recog-
milton of their work, many of them
having poems included in the new An.
thology of Alabama Poetry" of 1928.
Those SO honored are Emily Campbell
Adams, Frances r. Durham, Carolyn
Brandon Eliot, Scottie Mckenzie Fra
zier, Kate Downing Client, Hilton
Howell Jones, Anne BoZeman Lyon,
Miftie Owen McDavid Louise Gre
shaw Ray, Kate Ayers Roberts, M. e.
Henry Ruffin, Eugenia Bragg Smith,
Edith Tatum and Anne Arlington Ty-
heard in Washington in original read
ings during the authors congress of
the Pen Women and on the poetry pro-
grams of the biennial convention.
Y 4
MRS. SWAIN REED, one of the dy-
AVA manic personalities among the
local Pen Women and member of the
national board, is not only editing the
leagues official organ, the National
Bulletin, which is a monthly publica-
ton filled with the news OF the
branches and with information of value
to the writer's of the organization,
but she is chairman of the celebrity
breakfasts which are being given with
such success at the Willard Hotel by
the Pen Women in Washington this
season and is also discussing foreign
happenings of interest at the series OF
talks entitled Things Talked About" in
which she is in partnership with Mrs
Wolff Smith. These are given weekly
on Monday mornings at the Willard
Hotel. Mrs. Smith talks on events of
current interest in the United States
while Mrs. Reed reviews the affairs OF
the "other half" of the world.
In her work on the Bulletin Mrs
Reed has associated with her Miss
Patricia Poe Bennett and Miss Agnes
VIM. both members of the District
branch of the league.
Mrs. Theodore Tiller and Mrs. Wolf
Smith, both past presidents of the Dis
trict branch of the league, this season
again are giving their Book Reviews,
in which they were so successful last
year The early book review programs
of the District league itself were given
in the attractive, more or less b.
hemian, little "Hoot of the OWL re.
freshment room that was in the base.
ment of the old clubhouse of the Dis.
trich league on H street. Luncheon wa:
served and followed by the book review
program and Mrs. Tiller's name wa:
closely associated with these events