Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02

John Cooper will be hostess. The
guests of honor will be visiting Brazil
ian educators. In order to give time
to. meet these special guests, the tea
viii begin at o'clock instead of 4:30.
Mrs. Mabel Cook Cole will give an
illustrated talk on the experiences
which led to the writing of her book,
Savage Gentleman
Wednesday, February 5, pm,
bridge luncheon. Miss Elizabeth Haney
will be the hostess. Reservations should
be made by Monday noon. Bring play
ing cards.
Saturday, 9 pm, a dance. Mrs
Chester Morrill, will be hostess. Reser-
VationS to be made by Friday evening.
The study groups for February:
Pre-school Education. - Beginning
group, under the leadership of Miss
Edith Thomas, DR.. Cora Key and Miss
Christine Heinig, meets Thursday eve
nings at the washington Child Re-
search Center, 1925 Columbia road.
The advanced group meets Monday aft
ernoons at 2 O'Clock at the same place
Boyd Taylor. Pre-adolescent group
meets wednesday mornings at GAS
at the club house and under the leader
ship of DR.. Kathryn McHale.
international relations groups. first
and third Tuesdays at IL am. under
the leadership of DR.. Esther Caukin;
third Tuesdays at pm. leader, Mrs
Edith B. Cameron. Both of these meet
ines are held at the club house.
Mrs. H. T. Rainy, recently returned
from Haiti, will address the interna-
tional relations group February at
IL am, in the third-floor club rooms
of the Y. w. c. A. The discussion
group will meet DR.. Caukin at the club
house at 2 pm. instead of IL am, on
February Is. The 8 O'Clock group will
meet with Mrs. Cameron February l6
at the club house.
Women and Law.-The education COM
mittee announces a study group, led by
Miss Elizabeth Harris, professor of law
at Washington College of Law, on THE
Legal Status of Women. Past. Present
and Future" a non-technical discus
sion of woman,s position as an indi-
vidual. wife. mother and citizen, as
illustrated by the development of the
law. This group will meet first and
third Tuesdays at the club house.
Miss Carhart announces she will
start a new French class February at
HAS am. This Is for members inter-
eSted in French travel, and with special
reference to the geography of France.
This class is in addition to Miss Car
hart's regular Tuesday and Friday
classes.
Mrs. Walter c. Mendenhall will have
charge of the club house for February.
The board of directors met at lunch
con last Monday, preceding business
meeting. Two important future events
are being arranged. A debate on Feb
ruary II at Constitution Hall between
Hugh Walpole, Affirmative, and Thorn
ton Wilder negative. on the subject,
Resolved, That reading great fiction
and drama throws better light on ex--
hi M
biography" This debate will be pre-
sented under the joint auspices of the
American Association of University
Women and the Community Institute.
Mr.. Justice Wendell Stafford of the Su-
prenIe Court Of the District of Column
bia will introduce Mr.. Walpole and Mr..
Wilder
given to raise funds for the fellowship
fund. The play selected is Journeys
End" Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt Is
the general chairman; Mrs. E. @.
Nourse, vice chairman; Mrs. ]. K. Cald-
well, chairman of patronesSeS. with Mrs.
Wilson Compton and Mrs. Merle Thorpe
assistants. Mrs. Lawrence Radford is
In charge of circularization.
Recent new members, who are spe--
cially invited to attend the tea and
branch meeting on February 10, are
Miss Ellen G. AGREE, Miss Florence
Bingham, DR.. Susan S. Burr, Mrs. John
p. Cady. Miss Louise Endicott, Miss
Elsie Freeman. Mrs. Robert c. Green,
Miss Helen Holbrook. Miss Sheldon
Jackson, Miss Margaret Klein, Miss
Gladys Leavell, Mrs. Jean Henry Large,
Miss Helen Weir, Mrs. Charles Wilson,
Mrs. John S. z. Young.
League Of Republican Women has an
interesting program of events for Its
members for the month of February
beginning with the regular monthly
meeting at the Washington Club to-
morrow at $50 O'Clock. The president,
Mrs Edward A. Hartman, will preside
at the business session, after which
Mrs. Charles Alger will take charge
of the forum, introducing the speaker,
the Hon. Henry w. Temple, Represen-
tative from Pennsylvania. His sub
ject Is THE World Court"
Following the program. tea will be
served, the hostess for the afternoon
being Mrs. John Kirkwood. Presiding
at the tea table will be Mrs. Whitman
Cross and Miss Grace Temple.
On Monday, February 10, the third
of q series of dinners under the chair
manship of Mrs. Virginia White Speel,
honorary president of the league, and
national committee member for the
District Of Columbia, will be held at
the City Club, 1920 G street, at $50
O'Clock. Miss Margaret Baxter of the
Forum Club of London will address the
guests and members, her topic being
women in Public Life" Mrs. Ed
ward A. Hartman will receive the
guests and preside at the dinner. Res
ervations@ may be made by members
from Mrs. Henry Albers, 1910 Rhode
Island avenue
On Friday, February %, a tea will
be given at Republican headquarters.
$40 Seventeenth street, from 4 to
o'clock for members and invited guests.
WOmen'S City CIub.-Members of the
club and their guests will be presented
TO Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Kownatzki, for
merry of Konigsberg, East Prussia. Mr..
Kownatzki has a Winter studio In
Washington and several Of his can
vases have been on exhibit at the Cor
coran Art Gallery. Mrs. Arnold Span
hoofd will also be in the receiving line.
Following the regular business meet
ing Wednesday evening, Miss Irma
Briggs will be presented in a musical
program by Mrs. Gertrude Lyons. The
Marjorie Webster Players will present
Solemn Pride" by George Ross Leigh
ton. the one-act play presented in the
Guild of Washington. The cast will
include Betty Rushmore, Melissa
Wright, Lillian Massey. Helen Schwenk,
Evelyn Webb, Christine Sherrod, Edna
Howard, Margaret Dean and Helen Lee
Brown. Louise Elenor Lynch will di-
rect the play.
Mrs. Gladys Ball Middlemiss, chair
man Of the drama unit, announces a
luncheon to be given Tuesday. Febru-
ary IL, at ! O'Clock, when Mr.. Fritz
Leiber. Shakespearian actor and direc-
tor of the Shakespearean Society of
Chicago, will be the honor guest. Res
ervations are now being made.
class In pantomime under the
leadership of Mrs. Edith Sears, is Gre