Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-21

Newman and Miss Jean Stephenson.
The tea will follow Immediately after
the authors breakfast of the league,
which was a brilliant event OF the early
afternoon The large ball room OF the
Willard Hotel was filled with repre-
sentative Pen Women, their friends
and guests, to listen to the sparkling
program that had been arranged by
the national president, Mrs. Clarence
M. Busch. The principal speakers were
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G. Norris (kath-
leen Norris) OF California and New
York. Other speakers of the occasion
were Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton,
Mrs. Fay Cooper Cole, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hughes Collister, Mr.. v. M. Hlllyer.
Mrs. Bernie Babcock, Mrs. Roxana B.
Doran, Mr. Carl E. Milliken, Mrs. Daisy
BreauX Calhoun, Mrs. Ada Orme Du
Puy, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook and
Mrs. John D. Sherman. Bishop Free
man made the invocation. Other guests
at the speakers table were Mrs. I'd
ward Everett Gam, Mrs. James j.
Davis, Mrs. Porter H. Dale, Mrs. Merritt
Chance, Mrs. Karl Fenning, Mrs. Sallle
v. H. Pickett, Mrs. Hester Dorsey Rich
ardson, Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, Mrs.
Armstead Baylor, DR.. Mary AtkeSon
Moore, first vice president OF the league;
Miss Janet Richards, Mrs. Theodore
Tiller and Mrs. Daniel G. Chace, Mrs.
Victoria Faber Stevenson, Mrs. E. r.
Zimmerman, Mrs. William H. Moses.
Mrs. Blanche Smith Ferguson, Miss
Florence E. Ward, Mrs. Jesse w. Mich
olson and Miss Elizabeth Mallot Barnes,
all of the national executive board.
Mrs. Busch presided at the breakfast
table, assisted by Mrs. Nina Swain
Reed as toastmistreSS. Mrs. Louis
George Burger was in charge of the
traffic lights, an interesting feature of
the occasion.
This evening Mrs. Norris will receive
with Mrs. Busch at the latter's recep-
ton in the presidential suite at the
Willard, when the national officers,
delegates, alternates and visiting Pen
Women will be guests of the national
president of the league, Mrs. Clarence
M. Busch The national officers have
been invited to assist. This presidents
reception to the delegates is always one
of the brilliant and keenly enjoyed at
fairs of the convention.
Tomorrow afternoon the Chevy Chase
branch will entertain at a tea to the
delegates and alternateS, with Mrs.
Busch as an honor guest, together with
Mrs. Richard Yates, newly elected
given from 5 to Z o'clock in the studio
of Nine Amedeo T. Bruni, at 1914
street northwest. and other distin-
guished guests will be Mrs. Edward
Everett Gam, Mrs. James j. Davis,
Mrs. Guy D. Golf, Mrs. Porter H. Dale
and Mrs. John B. Kendrick.
Assisting Mrs. Emma w. P. Slack,
Miss Louise Worden and Mime. Bruni,
the. committee in charge of arrange
ments for the tea will be Mrs. Jesse
w. Nicholson, past president of the
branch Miss Cynthia Cleveland, Miss
Viola Offutt, Mrs. A. Pearl Mcpherson,
Mrs. Anton G. Cron, Miss Victoria
Coping, Mrs. Daisy B. Calhoun, Miss
Irene Juno. Miss Mary Bird Clayes,
Mrs. Blake Van Leer, Mrs. William But
Ter Bonham, Mrs. Katherine Fenton,
Mrs. Robert Bennett, Mrs. Jessie Weber
Kilt and Mrs. Lucia Ramsey Maxwell.
A music program will be given during
the tea, arranged by Mrs. Mary S. Par
ker, when the program will include
numbers by Mrs. Henry Hunt Mckee,
Mrs. George Butte and others.
A luncheon will be given tomorrow at
noon, by group of writers of the
league for Mr.. John Gallishaw, pre-
ceding his talk at the Willard before the
Pen Women, at 2 o'clock, in the shop
talk meeting at which DR.. Mary Meek
Atkeson will preside.
Mr.. and Mrs. Granville w. Deaton,
Grand Rapids, Mich; Miss Browne
Stafford, Springfield, Ohio, and Miss