Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19

with moving pictures was given at the
City Club last Tuesday evening by Mr..
Randall Jones on the National Park OF
Southwestern Utah and Grand Canyon
of the National Park of Arizona, assist
ed by Miss Mary Apple in three vocal
selections, for the Women's Auxiliary.
A card party will be given Tuesday eve
ming. February IL, at o'clock, at the
City Club, by the auxiliary.
Sixteenth Street Heights Club.-The
January meeting of the club was held
last Tuesday afternoon at the home OF
Mrs. H. X. Hobart, Chestnut street and
Blair road, Takoma Park. Mrs. Edwin
E. Roberts presided. After the usual
business meeting and luncheon the club
was addressed by Mr.. H. D. Hubbard
of the Bureau of Standards, his subject
being 1.-THE Advance in Science"
The next meeting of the club will be
held at the home of Mrs. Clarence Reed,
100 Chestnut street, Takoma Park, jan
uary %.
The guests of the club were Mrs.
William Leavitt, Mrs. G. w. Roller ano
Mrs. Vivian Wilson.
Soroptimist CIub.-Mary Catherine
Lewis, vice president of the Lewis Hotel
Training School and director of the
Lewis Tea Room Institute, was present.
ed with a gavel of the club by Mrs.
Harriet Hawley Locher, the retiring
president, last Wednesday at the eighth
installation dinner held at the Carlton
Hotel. The distinction of assisting in
creating the first school of hotel train
ing in the world belongs to Mary Cath
crime Lewis, whose efforts to achieve
a place in the sun for the woman
hotel worker has resulted in worthwhile
jobs for hundreds of ambitious girls and
women" says a recent Women's Club
achievements. Mrs. Lewis is an active
member of the National League OF
American Pen Women and of the Wash
ington Chamber of Commerce.
Other officers installed include Miss
Nora B. Hoffman, first vice president;
Mrs. Ado M. Klein Peter, second vice
president: Mrs. Agnes I. Kinnear, prin-
cipal Columbia Junior High, correspond
ing secretary; Miss Gene c. Bearmore,
auditor recording secretary; Miss Rosa
Place, manufacturer of medicine, treas
urer, and Mrs. Jennie M. Ryan and Miss
Katherine r. Pike, head of the legal
division of the U. S. Customs Bureau,
directors.
Among the out-of-town guests were
Miss Cora Davis of New York, regional
director of the North Atlantic District
of Soroptimist Clubs; Miss Temple
Bailey, the we'll known novelist from
Annapolis, and Mrs. Katherine Cohen,
president of the Business and Profess
sional Women's Club OF Arlington
County, Va, and a group of 20 Sorop-
timistS from Philadelphia, led by their
president, Mrs. Anna Schlorer Smith.
and Miss Mildred Duncan, formerly OF
Washington.
Miss Anna Schlorer Smith, who, as
president of the Philadelphia club, will
be hostess at the National Federation
of Soroptimist Clubs, to be held in that
city June 2, 1880, addressed the assem-
bly,.
and well known lecturer, told Of the rev.
erence of England for age-old traditions.
Mrs. Kathleen Reed Coontz gave sew
eral anecdotes from her personal expe-
rience as a magazine writer. Misses
Arlen and Writ, radio artists, enter
tanned on the piano and violin.
Ex-Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross, now vice
chairman of the National Democratic
committee, made an address in which
she declared that the present status OF
women has been brought about through
industrial changes and that woman fun
is no different today than
before she left the fireside for the type
writer and executives desk.
The committee on arrangements IN
cluded Miss Marjorie Webster, chair
man; Miss Nora Huffman, Mrs. EDNA
knight Gasch, Miss Grace Goodpasture,
Mrs. Edith Halves, Mrs. Nell Hysong,
Miss Alice Thomas, Mrs. Eva Turner
and Mrs. Ethel Knight Pollard.
The next meeting of the club will be
held Wednesday, January %, at the
Lafayette Hotel at which Miss Margaret
Baxter of London, England, will be
guest Of honor and speaker.
Columbia Floral Circle will meet to-
/ pm, at the home OF Mrs.
Mary E. Eppelsheimer, 1927 Hiatt place
northwest. -
Mrs. Laura Wight and Mrs. Lyman
Kebler are hostesses.
Washington League for the HARD OF
Hearing will meet each Monday at
). m. in the club rooms on H street Tor
lip-reading practice.
THURSDAY afternoons and evenings
the members meet for cards and lip
reading practice. Visitors are cordlaiy
The president, Miss Florence p. Spof-
ford. viii serve tea on Fridays, to 6,
and will be glad to welcome visitors at
this time. There will be benent caro-
party Saturday, January Is, In the
Club rooms, to which the public VIII pc
welcomed.
Takona Park Branch, American Red
first work OF the brancn
was done by the hostess, hospital and
recreation corps. This corps has been
divided into two groups. Mrs. George
PRYOR. who was chairman OF the entire
corps last year has charge OF the nos
pital group, and Mrs. z. T. Boylen, the
recreation group:
The hospital group was very active at
Christmas time. Mrs. George Pryor, as
sisted by girls from Scout Troop oil,
collected SUFFICIENT, homemade candy
and cake to fill 95 Christmas boxes:
These boxes, in their gay wrappings OF
red and white paper, dotted py many
Christmas seals, were distrlouteo among
the patients in wards IA ana 10 AZ
Walter Reed Hospital by girls from the
scout troop. while two Of the girls dis
tributed popcorn balls from pretty
basket, filled to overlooking.
The girls from Troop 81 have been
great help to the Takoma Red Cross
branch during the past year. and the
members of the branch are very CRATE
full to them for their ready ana EN-
Gent help.
Abracadabra Club met on Wednes-
day evening at the home OF Mr.. ana
Mrs. Arturo Y. Casanova. The presi-
dent John M. sylvester, was in the
chair. The responses to roll call were
concerning the life and time Of James
Buchanou. Mrs. Catherin Elliott Brum--
baueh, the speaker of the evening, read
a paper, "Sullivans Trip Through
pennsylvania" Mr.. Frank H. Smith
gave a reading. The next meeting OF
the club will be on the occasion OF their
annual banquet.
The Prince Georges County Fedora
tion of Women's CIubs.-The second OF
the series of four plays sponsored by
the drama division of the federation,
Iii no river, January Al at the Uni