Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-02

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Russell, leader. gave a musical tea on
Monday at the home of Mrs. George
J S. Goetzman on Nevada avenue. Mrs.
John Stewart and Mrs. Bernard Ger
mann were in charge Of the program
which was as follows: Piano solos by
Mrs. Charles w. INLAY, Jack O. Lam
b tsrn By " ISsaSTs Phillip I. Wt %
mot sang Little Orphant Annie" and
! 'Raggedy Man" Miss Virginia INLAY
read THE Selfish Giant" and Honey
moon VANS" Mrs. Dawson Olmsted
sang Shadow March" and Brownies"
Mrs. S. J. McCathran played the
witches Dance" The section held q
| rehearsal at the Z. v. Brown School
don Mors-n. The section has approved
! the music movement in the Maryland
| schools.
The nature section will 60 Tuesday
to Sherwood Forest as the guest Of Mrs
! Victor Whitlock. Cars will leave the
circle at 10 am. Mrs. George S. jamie
son was leader Of woodland walk on
! Tuesday.
The civic section. Mrs. Charles D.
| Curtiss, leader, will meet Friday at
1890 am. in the Chevy Chase Library
There will be reports Of the committee
| chairmen as follows: Mrs. Edward L..
Snead, resolutions and legislation; Mrs
| Douglas Griesemer applied education;
Mrs. Louis l.. Boekhoff. public welfare
The speaker will BE- George A. Finch
assistant secretary of the Carnegie En-
dowment for International Peace. His
/ subject will be Special Work of the
| Carnegie Endowment" There will be
sewing for the Social Service League Of
| Montgomery County. Luncheon at
1890. All club members are invited
The Washington Readers Club.--The
| Nowm meeting will be held Tues
day evening in the alliance room, All
Souls Unitarian Church.
The program will consist of an eve
ming of drama, Miss Emma A. Jordan,
chairman Of the program committee,
| presiding. Following q talk on The
Artist and the Theater," by Ethel
Claire Randall. three one-act plays will
| be presented, as follows:
Curtain" (Joseph Upper, with Vir-
ginia Bayly Blassingham as the wife
| and Stewart E. Blassingham as the huS-
| band. directed by Mary Randolph Ruff
Marriages Are Made in Heaven and
Elsewhere" Graham Price,, with Maui
rice H. Jarvis, Walter z. Thorne, Emily
Frech Barnes and Esther Marshman.
The play will be directed by Miss Emma
A. Jordan.
The third play is drama with the
scene laid In Russia, by Essex Dane,
When the Whirlwind Blows" The
cast includes Lulu A. Adams, Mary
Randolph Ruff and Dorothy A. Law
renee. This play will also be directed
by Miss Jordan.
An attractive musical feature of the
program will be the numbers furnished
| by the Colonial Quartet, Messrs. Harold
| S. King, C. Evans Brooks, Nathan A.
| Clark, Roy Z. Sabesh.
An interesting feature Of the Oc-
| tober meeting. which was the first Of
| the season. was the presentation to the
Washington Readers Club of gavel.
the wood of which was discovered in
the bed Of q river in England. This
wood had once been part Of an ancient
Roman bridge spanning the river.
Readers Club, who spent some weeks
in England during the early Summer
past secured a piece of the wood, had
| it polished and made into the gavel
which he Presented TO thc club.
The FIRST public recital OF the club
| will be given in November, the place
and date to be announced later.
The regular business meeting pre-
! cedes the program ut o'clock, at each
meeting, with the program beginning
at 8:35 pm. The president, w. Alfred
Falconer, presides.
American Association Of University
| WOmen.-Mrs. Anne Tellery Renshaw
| afternoon at 4 o'clock. The tea is Spon-
scred by the junior group of the club.
and Mrs. Renshaw Will speak on
Phases of Social Control" Hostess,
Miss Virginia Diedel.
This afternoon there will be a walk
along the Virginia bank Of the Potomac.
Grace Ross Chamberlin, leader.
Social and Economic Life in Russia
| from 1725 to 1914" will be the topic
for. discussion by the international re-
| lationS group meeting at the clubhouse
| Thursday at 2 pm. DR.. Esther Caukin
| leader.
In honor of the members OF the ex-
| ecutive board Of the Southern Women's
| Educational Alliance the club will en-
| terrain at tea Friday afternoon at 4
o'clock In the receiving line will be
Mrs. Veerhof1. president Of the
A. A. u. w; DR.. o. Latham Hatcher,
| president of the Southern Women's
Educational Alliance; Mrs. Paul E.
| Committee Of the A. A. u. W.; DR..
Kathryn McHale. Mrs. Avery Coonley
! and Miss Isabelle Stone. Presiding at
| the tea tabies-Mrs. Thomas w. Sid
! well. Mrs Cloyd Hecht Marvin, Mrs.
| Lucius c. Clark and Mrs Frank Ballou.
Hostesses-Mrs. Delos o. Kinsman, Mrs,
George B. Wood, Mrs Albert L. Bar
rows Miss Mary Louise Brown, Mrs.
H. Wellen Fisher.
DR.. E. Dana Durand will be guest Of
the club at luncheon Saturday at 1880.
| He is statistical assistant to the Secre-
tary of Commerce and former economic
adviser TO the Polish government. Mrs.
Bowerman will preside.
The EInnira College Club Of Wash
ington met october 25 after dinner
at the A. A. u w. Club. Ofdcers were
elected as follows: President, Mrs. A. l..
| Cricher: vice president, Mrs. Clinton
| o. Ward; treasurer, Mrs. c. w. Hurley;
recording secretary, Miss Cynthia
Crocker; corresponding secretary, Miss
| JAMIE Dee Troxel. The new executive
board consists Of Mrs. F. w. Croker,
Miss Esther Hart and Mrs. Thomas
Wrigley.
WOmen's City Club.-The hospitality
committee is in charge Of the Sunday
| afternoon tea today with Miss SOPHIE
| Pearce Casey and Miss Ethel Bagley
assisting The president, Mrs. William
Lee Corbin, and other officers OF the
club will be present.
Tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock
the Monday Auction and Contract
Club will hold its weekly meeting. Tues
day at o'clock the junior section, Miss
Thelma Schmitt, chairman, will meet
for dinner. At o'clock Tuesday the
| hPSA0A GANfiOY1 holds