Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-15
STUNTS FEATURED
AT PRESS SUPPER
Annual Party of Women's
Organization Takes Form
of Valentine Celebration.

The Women's National Press Club gave
Its annual stunt supper last night IL
the ballroom of the Willard Hotel, will
large number of we'll known womer
as guests. The party took the form o.
Valentine celebration, with valentines
for each guest of the club presented BY
Mother Goose" children at the direc.
ton of Dan Cupid.
Mrs. Marie Manning Gasch, the
original Beatrice Fairfax" played the
part of Dan Cupid her children" pre-
Senting valentines to nearly all of the
honor guests, who were Mrs. Frank B
Kellogg, Mrs William M. Jardine, Mrs
William Fairfield Whiting and Mrs
James j. Davis, wives of cabinet off,
GERS; Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife OF
the Speaker of the House; Mrs. Peter
Goelet Gerry, president of the Con-
gresSional Club: Mrs. Porter H. Dale,
newly elected president of the Con-
gresSional Club; Mrs. Edward Everett
Gam, sister of the Vice President-elect
Senator Charles Curtis: Representative
Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts,
Representative Florence P. Kahn of
California, Representative Katharine
Langley of Kentucky, Mrs. Everett
Sanders, wife of the secretary to the
G1CSIucIlb, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FbUtlI
Hanna Mccormick, Mrs Marietta Min
nigerode Andrews, Mrs. Frank BarrowS
Freyer, Mrs. Duncan Phillips and Mrs.
Elmer Schlesinger.
Valentine Text Recited.
Mrs. Longworth was presented with a
valentine by Margaret Poe Hart, who
recited the text before presenting it.
Other nursery children delivered valen-
tines to Representative-elect McCor-
mick, Assistant Attorney General Mabel
Walker Willehrandt, Mrs. Alvin T. Hert,
vice chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee; Mrs. Peter Goelet
Gerry, retiring president of the Con-
greSSional Club, and Mrs. j. Borden
Hartman, president of the Women'S
Democratic Club.
An extra of the club "organ,"
Women'S Press Club Whoopee, was de-
iiveled by two of the club "newsboys,"
Margaret Hart and Jackie Martin. =
The front page bore the program for
the entertainment after the supper
The first number was Marie Gasch and
Gourley Edwards in their Valentine Spe-
cialty, "A Visit From Olympus" assisted
by an all-Star cast. Next came Jack
Martin and Margaret Hart, the terpsi-
ohore twins, straight from six
months run at Loew's Imperial Ballet
in Bagdad."
BY special arrangement with John
w. MUssolini," Ruth Jones and Cathe-
rine burlington with the original Welsh
cast appeared for the first time on any
American stage in the play by P. Vir-
gilus Marc, entitled The Vestal Vigil
lantes," in which meeting of super
patriotic" organization was shown in
graphic detail
Through the courtesy of the keeper
OF the Zoo" Gourley Edwards and Mil
dred Brown the incompatible dunn
Dummies, visited the party" and Mar
garet Heating, in private life Mrs. Ed
ward Heating, told what she would do
eff I Were President" Marie Gasch
and Gourley Edwards, the Two Black
Crows" then appeared and a note on
the program read: This is not talk
ing picture" The finale was the all
star cast in medley of mirth and mu-
sic, "50,O0O,000 Women Can't Be
Wrong
The ladies of the ensemble included
Evelyn Condor, Katharine Lewis, Kate
Scott Brooks, katharine Brooks, Betty
Larimore, Nell Ray Clark, Corinne
Frazer, Violet Libby, Margaret Ger
mond, May Craig, Mary MacCracken
Jones and Isabel Kinnear Griffin.
Costumes by Proxy" although Mrs
John Mullvane designed those for Mar
tin and Hart, Terpsichore Twins, and
their Wooden Soldier assistants; wigs
by Herr Suit, shoes by Philly Sole,
Stiff Piano used exclusively, lifetime
hats by Cafritz, and stockings from
Lolita Runs
The committee for the party included
Hazel Grant Edgar. chairman; Mary
MacCracken Jones, skits and Skittles;
Dorothy E. Greene, props; Gladys
Montgomery, wardrobe mistress; Roberta
V. Bradshaw, critic and K. P, and
Gourley Edwards, Pooh Bah.
Officers of Club.
The officers of the club are Sallie ".
n. Pickett, society editor of The Eve
ming Star; Ruth Eleanor Jones, society
editor of the Times; Kate Scott Brooks
of the Chicago Tribune, Margaret Keat-
ing of Labor, Robert v. Bradshaw, Con-
solidated Press, and Elisabeth Ellicott
Poe, Washington Post. The members
and their guests at the party were:
Mrs. N. E. Allender, Mrs. George T.
Odell, Miss Eileen Solomon, Miss
Helen w. Atwater, Mrs. Alvin Dodd,
Miss Mary Lindsey, Miss Harlean
James, Mrs. Florence Boeckel, Mai.
Julia Stinson, U. S. A.; Miss Roberta
Bradshaw, Mrs. Clyde Kelly, wife of
Representative Kelly Of Pennsylvania;
Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty, wife of the
assistant solicitor of the Treasury De-
partment; Miss katharine Brooks, Mrs.
George MeSta, Mrs. George Maurice
Morris, Mrs John Hampton Howell, Mrs.
Mildred Kolb Schulze, Mrs. Kate Scott
Brooks, Miss Grace Burton, niece of
Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio;
Mrs. Russell B. Harrison of Omaha,
daughter-in-law of the late President
Benjamin Harrison; Mrs. Samuel
A. Kimberly, Miss Mildred Brown, Mrs.
Myrtle W. Buckles, Mrs. John McElroy,
DR.. Frances Foye, Mrs. Arthur Nyman,
Mrs. K. P. McElroy, Miss Mary I.
Thompson, Mrs. Evelyn c. Condor,
Mrs. Harley Peyton Wilson, Mrs. Enalls
Waggaman, Mrs. Eleanor T. Cronin,
Mrs. Edward B. Clark, Mrs. Edward G..
TnUrrv Mrs Ernest n Rickpal1 AHicS