Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-05
NEWS OF THE CLUBS

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patton.
The Washington Alumnae Chapter Of
Sigma Kappa held joint memorial
service with Zeta Chapter of the same
sorority in memory Of its founder, Ida
Services were at 2024 G street, Thurs
day night.
Free Lance Club.-Mrs. Herbert Pool,
wife of Mai. Herbert Pool, recently
come to Washington for station, has
been elected corresponding secretary
Others elected at the last meeting at
the Annapolis Hotel were DR.. william
Barron, president; Mrs. lone Mooney,
vice president; Miss Evelyn Crane,
recording secretary, and Felix Schwarz,
treasurer.
The American Women's TOwne Club
will hold a meeting of its board Tues
day in the club house, 1925 P street,
at 1850 am. Luncheon will follow
the meeting and will be held In the
| Colonial room. The board will make
plans for the months entertainment
and for the evening educational
classes which will be held during the
Winter season. Among these classes
will be for history. French and political
study and public speaking.
The Monday afternoon tea will be
held at 4:30 to $50 pm. They are in
formal and there will be several of
the executive board members in the
receiving line. The tea talk will be at
o'clock.
The District of Columbia League Of
American Pen Women will begin the
study groups at the studio in Stone
leigh Court on Tuesday evening with
the short story. Miss Willard Howe,
chairman, assisted by Miss Nellie r.
Thomas, vice chairman, has arranged
a program with speakers and critics
who are authorities in all branches Of
fiction writing. They have planned also
for suggestions as to the marketing of
manuscripts. On Friday evening at
O'Clock the drama group, Mrs. N. v.
Armstrong, chairman, will begin study
along lines of creative play writing.
These group meetings are open to all
the members Of the club.
National Capital Chapter Of the Del
phian Society will meet Wednesday ct
the Carlton Hotel at GAS am.
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent,
Daughters Of Union Veterans, met Sep
TENDER rs at Soldiers, Sailors and Ma
rines Club with the president, Mrs Anna
G. Horn, presiding. Mrs. Margaret Brodt
was appointed by the president as first
color bearer to I'LL the vacancy, and was
installed by Miss Jennie Hamilton
Chairman of Arlington services, Mrs.
Bugbee, announced a service today at
the Tomb of the Unknown Civil War
Dead at Arlington, when a wreath would
be placed by Burnside Relief Corps.
Comdr. Wells stated he would present q
framed copy of the American Greed to
the tent.
The Arts Club will have q tea this
afternoon in honor of the artists of the
Circulating Picture Club. Mrs. Alice l..
L. Ferguson, chairman of the Art Com
mittee, will be the hostess. Edward c.
Potter vice chairman Of the Music Com
mittee, will speak Tuesday on Music
Critics and Music Criticism" Miss Sade
Styron, chairman of the Music Com
mittee, will be the hostess. DR.. Theo-
dore Maynard, professor of English lit
erature at Georgetown University, will
give readings from his work on Tuesday.
Mrs. william Wolff Smith and Mr.. Ben
Miller viii be the hosts.
A rally Of members and their friends
to complete the organization for service
during the three days of the Foire aux
Croutes will be held between and 8
pm, October IL, and the afternoons and
evenings Of October Is, II and 18 will be
given ever to this French Potboilers'
Fair. On october % there will be an
evening Of song, with dances, in costume.
The participants will be Misses
Celia Fioravanti, Dorothy Neff Tyler
and Marjorie Lowe, singers, and Miss Lily
zalipsky as dancer. Mrs. Richard c.
Dean will be the hostess.
On October rs @ chatting dish supper
will be held, followed by poetic and
dramatic readings by Mrs. Belle Bohn
Smith, with the Hospitality Committee
as r1osts. DR.. Robert Sterling Yard, ex-
ecutive secretary Of the National Parks
Association, will speak on The Meaning
and Purposes Of Our Parks System" on
October %. Comdr. Lewis P. Clephane,
chairman Of the Civic Committee, will
be the host.
WOman's Guild Of American Univer-
sity.-The Executive Committee met
Tuesday at the club house of the Ameri-
can Association Of University Women
as the guests of the new president, Mrs.
Peter M. Anderson. Plans were dis
cussed for the year and arrangements
made for q meeting October 81.
The Zonta Club met wednesday at
the Raleigh Hotel, with Miss Gertrude
Van Hoesen presiding. A talk was
given by member of the club, Miss
Ruth Atwater, director of home eco
Monies of the National Gamers Asso-
citation.
The guests present were: E. G. Howe,
for many years president of the acade-
my department of University Of Illinois:
Mrs. Stuart Northrup, style consultant
Of the Sterling Silversmith Guild; Miss
Gladys Taylor, national student Y. w.
e; A. secretary. New York City; Miss
Mary Super, secretary of the National
kindergarten Association, Washington,
D. C.: Miss Barnard, Mrs. William Kit
tie, Washington, D. c.; Mevrouw E. S.
Perk-Porter, Amsterdam, Holland; Miss
Ellin Newton, fellow Zontiah from Car
vel Hall, Annapolis Nd.
The club will be addressed next We'd
nesday by Prof. Kinsman of the Ameri-
can University, economist, who has
been visiting this Summer in Russia,
and will talk on the Position Of Women
in Russia"
The Columbian Women Of the George
Washington University met Tuesday
from to o'clock in Corcoran Hall.
The business meeting viii be preceded
by social. Miss Elizabeth Cullen,
president, will preside. Miss Cullen has
announced the following chairmen:
Program, Mrs. Daniel c. Chace; scholar
ships, Mrs. William Carl Ruediger; ways
and means. Miss Virginia Diedel;
alumni relations, Mrs. Joshua Evans,
jr.; vocational opportunity, Prof. Anna
Pearl Cooper; house, Miss Frances C.
Wolff; newcomers, Mrs. James H. Tay-
lor; emergency funds, Miss Alice
Graham; membership, Miss Josephine
| Elizabeth Hopkins; life membership,
Mrs. Grace Ross Chamberlin.
The program for the meeting Tuesday
will feature the reading of last years
history by Mrs. Nellie Cross Knappen,
! historian. The meeting Is under the
| joint charge of Mrs. James H. Taylor,
chairman of the Newcomers Commit
tee, and Miss Frances G. Wolff, chair