Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
PEN WOMEN OPEN
SESSIONS MONDAY
National League Prepares
for Biennial Writer'S
Convention Here.

Writers, artists and composers from
I'll parts of the country will attend the
NTH biennial convention of the Ma
nonal League of American Pen Women
BEGINNING a f1ve-day session in the
Willard Hotel tomorrow.
An authors breakfast at IL O'Clock
viii start the convention on its way,
and this will be followed Immediately
ny reception at Stoneleigh Court in
honor of Mrs. Clarence M Busch. the
national president. and Mrs. Kathleen
Norris. nationally known writer, unop-
posed for the presidency at the election
OF officers to be held during the forth
coming convention.
Tomorrow night at o'clock activi-
ties will once more shift to the willard,
when the national executive board will
hold its annual meeting, and an hour
later a reception will be held in honor
of the delegates, alternates and visiting
members.
Business Session.
The first business session will be held
Tuesday morning at 10 O'Clock in the
willard. after registration of delegates
St 0 O'Clock. Ratification of the tenn
porary nominating and bylaws revision
committees will mark this session.
Three-minute reports will be made by
national officers. State vice presidents,
branch presidents and chairmen of ma
ttonal standing committees.
A poets forum for those attending
the convention who are not delegates
will open in the Fairfax room at the
willard at 1890 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. Mrs May Folwell Hoisington of
New York, chairman, will preside.
"Analyzed Rhyme" will be discussed by
Ada Borden Stevens, Poe" by Clement
Wood, and Poetry Magazines" by Edith
Mirick of Star Dust. Other speeches
will be made by Catherine Coblentz of
ssThe Carlton" Alan F. Peter of THE
Poetry Quarterly" and Harold Vinal Of
voices"
Shop-talk sessions will be held Tues
day and Wednesday afternoons under
the direction Of DR.. Mary Meek AtkeSon
Moore, first vice president and chair
man of the manuscript bureau. A fea-
ture of these sessions will come We'd
nesday afternoon, when John Gallishaw
Of New York, founder of the School Of
Creative Writing, will talk.
On Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock q
poetry evening" will be held.
Motion Picture Division.
On Wednesday evening an important
event of the convention will be the ses-
sion of the motion picture division,
when the special address will be made
IL
of the Motion Picture Producers and
Distributors.
The preliminary report of the nomi-
mating committee will be given Thurs
day morning and nominations made for
the national officers and State vice
presidents for 1930-32. Nominations
will be closed at 1890 o'clock Thursday.
The convention win reconvene at 1880
o'clock that afternoon to hear the final
report of the committees on credentials
and registration and from to $50
O'Clock the polls viii be open. At z
o'clock the delegates viii assemble to
hear the report Of the tellers.
Installation Of President.
At 10 o'clock Friday morning the In
stallation of the new national president
will take place. Though the oppor-
tunity for nominations is still open,
Mrs, Norris for president, Mrs. Nina
Swain Reed for first vice president and
Mrs. Daniel G. Chace for second vice
president are thus far unopposed.
Innortant social events of the con-
vtntion will be the reception at the
White House by the President and Mrs.
Hoover Wednesday afternoon at 4:30,
reception in honor of Mrs. Busch
and Mrs Norris on Thursday afternoon
at $3.50 o'clock by Mrs. Edward Everett
Gam in her apartment at the May
hover Hotel, and reception ON Friday
afternoon by Mrs. James j. Davis, wife
OF the Secretary of Labor, at her Massa-
ehusetts avenue home in honor of the
pennsylvania Pen Women and dele
gates. Admission to these three events
will be by card only.
At 9 o'clock Friday evening the re-
CepIlon 10 the incoming national presi-
cent VIII be given at the Willard.
During the convention there win Also
ne . concert at the home of Mrs. Henry
y. Dimock.