Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
Notables to Gather
Friday Next at Final
Celebrity Breakfast
Pen Women's League Out
lines an Elaborate Pro-
gram and Lists the Proni-
nent Speakers Invited to
Participate.

A brilliant array of celebrities from
various fields Of achievement will be
presented by the National League of
American Pen Women Friday at the
final celebrity breakfast Of the organ
ization at IL o'clock at the Willard
Hotel Included on the program ar
ranged by Mrs. Clarence M. Busch and
her committee are Sir Archibald Flower
chairman of the board OF governors Of
the Shakespeare Memorial Theater, who
will speak on "Stratford and the
Shakespeare Players; DR.. william Allen
Wilbur. provost of George Washington
University, and an authority on litera-
ture, who will discuss THE English
Novel;; Rear Admiral Robert Edward
Coontz, retired, who has had q long and
distinguished career In the United
States Navy, and whose new book,
From the Mississippi to the Sea-" will
shortly be of the press; Maj. Gen. John
A. Lejeune, superintendent of the Vir-
ginia Military Institute and former
commandant of the United States
Marine Corps, who also is entering the
field of authorship with his new book,
THE "reminiscences of a Marine; DR..
Mary Meek Atkeson, first vice president
of the National League of American
Pen Women, who will dip into the
future in her talk on THE Fiction of
Tomorrow" and Mrs. Ambrose N Diehl
of Pittsburgh, national corresponding
secretary of the league and national
chairman of the motion picture COM
mittee OF the General Federation of
Women's Clubs.
Mrs. Busch, national president, who
recently returned to Washington from
Miami, will preside, assisted by Mrs
Nina Swain Reed, editor of the leagues
of1cial organ, The Bulletin, who will
give the book reviews of the occasion.
Mrs. Elizabeth Burgess Hughes Col
lister, national historian of the league,
is sponsor at the table of the national
board and will have as her personal
guests Mrs; Cabot Stevens, Miss
and Mrs. Boyd Carpenter. Others at
this table will be the national recording
secretary of the league, Mrs. Daniel @.
Chace, and her guest Mrs. Henry Graf
tan Doyle; Mrs. Charles w. Allen, ma
tional registrar, and Mrs. G. G. White,
chairman of the national membership
committee Of the league.
Mrs. e. Richard Gasch, president of
the District of Columbia branch of the
league, will have with her at the table
for which she Is sponsor Mrs. Eugene
Peters, Mrs. Lillian N. John, Miss
Josephine Lewis, Miss Irene Juno, Mrs.
w. s. Ruckman and her guests Mrs.
Charles @. Abbot and Mrs. william A.
Kinnan, and Miss Gretna P Boswell
whose guest will be Mrs. Grace Taylor
Koob.
Mrs. Henry T. Allen, wife Of Mai.
Gen. Allen, will be hostess to a company
OF 10, having at her table Mrs Wilbur
w. Hubbard, Mrs. Frazier Head, Mrs.
z. st. John Greble, Mrs. Ollie James,
Miss Bertha Morse, Mrs. Walter r.
Tuckerman and Mrs. Alice Wakem. Mrs.
Tuckerman and Mrs. Greble will enter
tain guests.
Among those at the table for which
Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews is sponsor
will be Mr.. and Mrs. John Walker
Holcombe, Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes,
guest of Mrs. Andrews, and Mrs. William
Goldman Sturgis.
Mrs Herbert J. Drane, wife of Repre-
sentative Drane of Florida; Mrs. Edward
Graves and Mrs. F. E. Cunningham.
who is entertaining in honor of Mrs
Howard L. Hodgklns, are among those
who have recently taken tables for this
closing event in the celebrity breakfast
series.