Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-13

is at the Woman's City Club. Mrs.
Wymond H. Bradbury, Mrs. Biggs, Mrs.
Fred B. Campbell and Mrs. Eugene G.
Brokmeyer, hostesses for the occasion.
The club will elect officers.
The Prince Georges County Fedora
ton of WOmen's Clubs.-A three-act
comedy was well presented by members
of the Brandywine Grange in the audi
forum OF the University of Maryland
Tuesday evening. Those in the cast
were Jerome Townsend; j. B. Edelkamp,
Felix Marden, D. Burroughs, Mr. Smith.
A. Wolfe, Alexander Pittifer, Abner
Mason, Jimmy Spangler, j. E. Hogue,
Marguerite Mari, Mrs. G. ]. Outten,
Lillian Wendale, Mrs. J. E. Hogue,
Pansy Purple, Elizabeth Burroughs.
Amelia Buzby. Mrs. A. Swanson, Mrs.
Pettifer Mrs. w. Lusby and Mrs. j. B.
Blandford.
The Woman's Club of MeIIwOOd
District held its annual meeting April
at the home of Mrs. Henry Lee Morris.
Officers elected were: President, Mrs.
Frank P. Scrivener; vice president, Mrs.
John H. Traband; recording secretary,
Mrs. William S. Hill; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Frank Small; treasurer,
Mrs. Helen M. Rector, and director,
Mrs. Henry Lee Morris
A gift of fiat silver was presented to
the retiring president, Mrs. Helen F.
Ober. Mrs. C. F. Mcguire was appointed
a delegate to the convention of the
State Federation of Women's Clubs at
Salisbury, Md, May 6, Z and 8.
The Woman's Community Club of
OxOn Hill, Md, met in the club room
of the Oxon Hill School March rs. The
president. Mrs. Q. e. James, announced
the annual meeting of the county
federation would be held May 81 in the
parish hall, at Bladensburg, Md. The
dance has been changed from April
26 to April "a. Miss Regain gave a
lesson on Curtains in the Home" The
next meeting will be April %.
LIE Cercle Francois de Washington
Les Precieuses Ridicules) was received
Wednesday evening at the Institute OF
Musical Art. Eighteenth and 1 streets,
by Miles Edith Beah Austin and Mar
garet Wait and M. Albert T. Clark. A
reading was given by Mile. Margaret
Window, piano solo by M. Frank Gebest,
Nine Ross Johnson sang, the piano
accompaniment being played by Nine.
Pierre de Chauny; Nine. de Chauny
then gave readings, Mile. Margaret
Window gave two eighteenth century
bergerettes, playing her own accom-
paniment; Nine. Berthe Romero fol-
lowed with causerie, and Nine. Ross
johnson, a song.
VoteIess ID. C. League of Women
VOters.-Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle
presided at a meeting of the executive
board, April 4. Mrs. Swormstedt, chair
man of the memorial committee, re-
ported responses in behalf OF this
testimonial to the District of Columbia s
outstanding woman, Mrs. Ellen Spencer
Mussey. Miss Helen Gardeners name as
another woman who had accomplished
much for women was added and favor
ably considered.
Mrs. H. F. Cameron announced plans
for a dinner, sponsored by the COM
mittee on international cooperation TO
prevent war, was under way. The board
voted in favor of asking for an appro-
priation from Congress, TO- matronS Tor
all public schools in the District.
Phil Sheridan Woman's Relief Corps
will meet April Is at pm, in Grand
Army Hall, for initiation service. A
luncheon was served April 4 by the pres
ident, Mrs. Cora L. Mandy, and the
chairman of the executive committee,
Mrs. Addie w. Hickman. The COM
mander of Phil Sheridan Post expressed
appreciation of the corps hospitality.
Many members of the corps took part
in the department service OF the Wom-
ans Relief Corps, April 6, at the Ste
phenson Monument, Seventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue, commemoratlng
Grand Army day. The patriotic lnstruc-
tor of the department, Mrs. E. Helen
Temple, had charge of the exercises.
Included in the program was a song
composed by Mrs. Temple, entitled The
G. A. r. Forever"
The Womsn's Club Of Bethesda,
during the past week, besides the regu-
lar business and program meeting Tues
day. had two committee activities of i'm
pcrtance. Monday the hospital COM
mttee met at the home of the chair
man. Mrs c. Willard Hayes, in Edge
moor. and prepared surgical dressing for
the Montgomery County General Hos
pital. Friday evening the postponed
program arranged originally for jan
uary by the conservation committee,
Mrs B. T Elmore, chairman, was pre-
scented at the club house. The feature
was a motion picture of wild flower life
in America. shown by DR.. P. L. Kicker,
president of the Wild Flower Preserva-
ton Society of America.
The guest speaker, Mrs. James Luney,
discussed prison and reformatory condi-
tionS in the United States, lest Tuesday.
The ways and means chairman. Mrs.
Oliver owen Kuhn, announced that an
Easter dance will be given at the club
house, April Is. On May this COM
mittee plans to give another dinner.
Hostesses at tea were Mrs. L. Gibbon
White, Mrs. Oliver owen Kuhn, Mrs.
Campbell Oliphant, Mrs. Adolph Guide,
Mrs. N. F. Rabner, Mrs. James Rowe,
Mrs. Maude Howell Smith, Mrs. w. r.
Tuckerman, Mrs. Ada Allies Wilson, Mrs.
E. T. Cronin and Mrs. E. P. Able. Mrs.
NJ. C. Brann reported on the new code
of ethics for motion pictures.
The WOman's Community Club of
KensingtOn met Monday at the Ma
sonic Hall, under the auspices of the
arts and science department, Mrs
George H. Snyder, chairman. There
was a display Of the work done by this
section of the club.
Miss Annie Wilson, former director
OF art in tn. District public schools,
gave a talk on Color" A music pro-
gram was given by W. T. Holt and Miss
A. E. Hill
Delegates were elected to the State
and county meetings. The State meet
ing will be held in Salisbury, Md, May
5, 6 and 7. Delegates to this meeting
are: Mrs. George G. Shinn, Mrs Edgar
w. Moore and Miss Annie Wilson: al
ternates, Mrs. B. L. Vipond, Mrs. Harry
K. Carrick and Mrs. George A. Davis.
Those elected to attend the annual
Spring meeting of the County Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs, to be held at
Silver Spring, Md, are Mrs. B. w. Kum-