Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-08

Mass are staying at the Ambassador
while visiting Washington.
Mrs. Meyer Honor Guest of
Women's City Club Tomorrow.
Mrs. Eugene Meyer will BE- guest of
honor and speaker at the Women's
City Club forum luncheon tomorrow
at / o'clock 1.-The Recreation Move
ment' will be the subject of the talk.
Mrs Laura A. Bradley will be hostess.
Mrs Lyman B. SWormStedt will present
the speaker and preside at the lunch
con. Among those making reservations
are: Mrs. j. j. Blaine, Miss Myrtle
Bum, Mrs Charles Wilcox, Miss V. S.
Benjamin, Mrs. Louis Bradley, Miss
Sarah Grogan, Mrs. Jennie 0. Berloner,
DR.. o. Josephine Baird, Miss Catherine
Watkins, Mrs. Gladys B. Middlemiss,
Miss Sarah Cushing, Miss Ethel Bagley,
Spencer MuSSey, Mrs. C. H. Curl, Mrs.
Edgar t. Brown, Mrs. Caroline B.
Stephens, MRS. Henry T. Rainey, Miss
Elaine Eppley Mrs. Frances Merchant,
Mrs l. B. Dodson, Mrs. C. H. Claudy,
Mrs Robert j. Bates, Mrs. Susie Root
Rhodes, Mrs. S. S. Martin, Miss Media
Ann Martin, Mrs j. j. Stephens, Miss
E. KenSett Vail, Mrs. Gertrude Bishop,
Mrs Edward Heating, Miss Violet Ham
bleton, Mrs. Alice Minch, Miss Mary
Hayden, Miss Margaret Hayden, Mrs. j.
F. Mayer. Mrs. Henry Seymour, DR.. A.
Frances Foye, Miss Grace N. Wright,
Miss Grace Cummings, Miss Anna c.
Cummings, Mrs. Edith Sears Miss S.
P. Casey, Mrs. l.. l.. Snow, Miss Bessie
Fisher, Mrs j. Garfield Riley. Miss
Florence Brook, Mrs. L. *. Benton,
Stewart and Mrs. K. Crossthwaite.
Miss Miriam Davenport Cow, the
dramatic reader and impersonator, will
read Booth Tarkington'S three-act
comedy, Intimate Strangers" this eve
ming at 8:15 o'clock in the Immaculate
Seminary. Miss Cow is a reader of
unusual artistic ability and is head of
the speech department at Mount st.
Joseph's College in Philadelphia.
Miss Dorothy Wulf, Miss Marie
Delonglee, Miss Bernice Moler, Miss
Bernice Field, Miss Iva De Witt and
Miss Mary Louise Brown will be host
esses at a recital of old English music
to be given by Mr.. Edward l.. McAdam
at the Women's Residence Hall on the
campus of American University. The
faculty and their wives will be the
guests Of this occasion.
The Washington Unit of the women's
Overseas Service League will hold an
Armistice breakfast in the garden house
of the Dodge Hotel. Among those ex-
pected to attend are: Miss Mabel
Boardman, Maj. Julia Stimson, Capt.
Blanche Rulon, Miss j. Beatrice Bow
man, Miss Lucy Minnegerode, Miss
Lena Hitchcock, Past National Presi-
dent of the Organization Miss Mary
Lindsey, Mrs. Alfred E. Bradley, Mrs.
Thomas H. G. Reed and Miss L Ma
linde Havey. About go are expected,
all of them women who served overseas
during the World War.
Miss Faustine Dennis, president OF
the local unit, will preside.
Theater parties will be the order of
the evening Thursday and Friday, No
vember IA and Is, at Mckinley High
School auditorium, when the Commu-
nifty Drama Guild Of Washington viii
offer the initial presentation OF its Sec
ond season to all lovers of the amateur
drama in the Capital City. The play
chosen by the board Of governors for
that occasion, 1.-THE Torch Bearers," by
George Kelly, will be presented with a
cast of outstanding Washington players,
directed by MIR. Denis E. Conneu, one of
the cityS most popular dramatic artists.
AS the date of the opening play of
the season comes nearer, each day
brings additional patrons of sthe drama
to the list of Washingtonians who are
guarantor members or subscriber men,
bers of the Drama Guild, and every man
and woman in the Capital City is in
vited to ally himself with this forward
movement in one way or another.
Recent guarantors are Miss Hazel
Arlington, Miss Laura M. Berrien, Mrs.
Edmund ]. Brennan, Mr.. Randolph
Keith Forrest, Miss Katherine Fulker-
son, Miss Esther G.. Galbraith, MIR. Ben
jamin F. Heidel, Mrs. John Albert
Hunter, Miss Anne Ives, Mr.. William
King, Miss Dorothea Lewis, Mr.. Robert
M. Miller, jr.; Capt. Ray G. Montgomery,
u. S. A; Miss Pauline E. Oak, Miss
Beatrice Peters, Mr.. Cuno H. Rudolph,
Miss Annie Russell, Miss Mary Webster
and Miss Dorothy M. White.
Subscribers include Mrs. viii G.
Barnes, MIR. and Mrs. H K. Bush Brown,
Mrs. Karl Fenning, Miss S. Virginia
Handy, Mr.. e. v. Heth, Mr.. F. M. Hoff-
helms, Col. Harry r. Lee, Mrs. Ida Gar
rett Mattingly, Miss Mary McKenny,
Miss Helen Nicolay, Miss Betty Ridsdale,
Mrs. Henry w. Seymour, Miss Dorothy
Skinner, Miss Clara K. Stidham, Miss
Jessie Urner, Miss Bessie B. Warren and
Miss Anne Webster.
The Curley Club Of Washington gave
o banquet at the Hotel Continental last
evening in honor of the Rev. Francis X
Cavanagh, who has been spiritual di-
rector of the club for more than three
years. Mr.. william j. Boyd, past presi-
dent OF the Curley Club, was toastmas-
ter. The address of welcome was made
by Miss Gretchen Baden, president pro
tenn. Other addresses were made by
Father Cavanagh, Miss Mary L. MCGEE,
founder Of the club, and Mr.. William j.
Boyd. A violin solo was played by Miss
Mary Cavanagh, accompanied by Miss
Margaret Gauges. Solos also were given
by Miss Gretchen Baden, soprano, &C.
companied by Miss Helen Herbeck; Mr..
Silvio H. Poll, tenor; Miss Margaret
Gauges contralto, and Miss Mary Fran
ces Glenn, soprano, all accompanied by
Miss Gretchen Baden; Mrs. Estelle
Dean, soprano, accompanied by Miss
Gauges; a recitation by Miss Helen Her
beck and a speciality number by Mr..
Billy Kelly. There were more than so
members and guests present. The ban
quet hall and tables were most attrac-
lively decorated in the club coIors, blue
and white. Miss Monica Gordon, chair
man of the entertainment committee
and treasurer of the club, had charge
of all arrangements.
The teachers of the John Eaton
Erh0nl Uava a dinnar an hopor ~ Eve