Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-16
SOCIETY
Continued From second Pagel
Factory In Philadelphia, was guest a
the Nardman Park Hotel over Sunday

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Factory in Philadelphia, was a guest at
the Nardman Park Hotel over SUNDAY
Among those who have taken tables
for the benefit card party 10 be given
by Columbian Women OF the George
Washington University on SATURDAY
afternoon, November IL at the NJ nj,
nedy-Warren, are: Mrs. Cloyd Heck
Marvin Mrs. William j. Mallory, Mrs.
Joshua Evans, ir Mrs. Henry Avian
Strong. Mrs. Douglas Putnam Blrnle,
Mrs Abram Lisner Mrs. Clarence
AspinWsl Mrs Charles HerrleS WOOD
hull, Mrs. Alfred Adams Wheat, MIS-
Gilbert Cro5yenor, Mrs. Charles Rlporg
Mann. Mrs. Merle Thorpe, Mrs. Chafles
Edward Munroe, Mrs. Howard bii I
Hcdgkins, Mrs. William Car! RueolgeI'
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, Mrs. owen
b French, Mrs Russell McNltt, MISS
Anna Pearl Cooper, Mrs. Katherine
Rovee, Miss Janet McWllliams, MISS
lucille wilkinson, Mrs. Wnllam %
Vashburn and Mrs. Bernard j. Jarman:
Miss Janet McWilliams, chairman OF
the committee arranging Tor the pehe-
fit. has serving with her, Mrs. RuSSeL
McNitt chairman of Tickets MISS
Elizabeth Peet chairman of Patronesses:
Mrs.. Virgil B. jackson, chairman OF
TABLES Mrs Edward Eckhart, chairman
Of Place: Miss Louise Moore, chairman
of Candy, and Mrs. Edwin Behrend,
chairman of Printing.
Mrs Earl w. Barnhart, who is chair
man of the Reception Committee. VIII
by assisted by Mrs. William j. Mallory
president of Columbia0 Women; Mrs.
d. K. Shute Mrs Howard Lincoln
Hodgkins. Mrs. John Paul Earnest,
Miss Elizabeth Peet and Miss Eliza
r,,1l ct -
panization: Miss Harriet Garrels and
Miss Margaret Pepper.
The proceeds of the benefit will be
used to assist the George Washington
University in the purchase Of replica
Of the Houdon statue of George wash
ington.
Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton will re-
turn to Washington early this week to
be the house guest of Mrs. Dorothy
De Muth Watson. Mrs. Seton will come
to Washington to attend the musicale
being given at the home OF Mrs.
Watson, when the compositions of Mrs.
Dorothy Radde Emery are to be pre-
sented by the Capital City Chorlsters.
and other interpretative artists Many OF
Mrs. Seton's lyrics have been used by
Mrs. Emery for her musical settings,
and she will hear the great Majority Of
these for the first time at this musicale
Wednesday evening. Mrs. Seton is the
national president of the League OF
American Pen Women and Mrs. Watson
is the national chairman of music for
the league. Mrs. Emery is an active
member of the same organization and
won second prize in the 1880 music
contest, for her Flower Cycle" a
quartet for voice, violin, cello and piano,
the words of which were written by
Grace Thompson Seton.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Southall Har-
rison Armistead of Nashville, Tenn,
have announced the engagement of
their granddaughter, Miss Gayle Tigert
Armistead of Nashville and Washington.
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
William Houston Armistead to Mr..
John Beale Bordley of Petersburg Va.
The wedding will take place the latter
part of November in Washington.
The Country Club of Virginia. at
Richmond. was the scene of two debu
tante parties last Friday evening. one
dinner, at which Miss Georgia Grin
nan, daughter of DR.. and Mrs. st.
George Tucker Grinnan, was presented,
and the other ball, at which Miss
Nancy Bridgforth, daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Baskerville Bridgforth, made her
bow to society. DR.. and Mrs Grinnan
end Miss Grinnan and her guest Miss
Henrietta Bryan of Washington, re-
ceived the guests in the ball room,
standing before a screen of flowers sent
Miss Grinn2n. Dinner was served in
the main dining room. Pink and green
was the color scheme of the decorations,
and bowls Ct pink roses, snspdragons
and sweet peas were arranged on the
long dining table. Miss Bridgforth's
house guests. Miss Hilton Roller Fort
Defiance. We, Miss Harriet Baylor, At
19nta. Ga; Miss Juliet C3tlin. Danville,
Va; Miss Frances Davis, Norfolk. Va.
and Miss Louise Lancaster. Staten
Island. N. Y. were in the receiving line
with DR.. and Mrs. Bridgforth and Miss
Bridgforth.
The Dietetic Association of the Dis
trict of Columbia will entertain at its
annual benefit card party tomorrow eve
ming at 8 o'clock at the Dodge Hotel.
Miss Elsie Fitzgerald is chairman of the
Committee on Arrangements for the
party. There will be 20 tables of players.
Miss Edith Luke of Detroit, Mich,
is passing several days at the DODGE
Hotel. Hiss Luke is connected with the
Merrill Palmer School in Detroit and is
en- route home from Philadelphia, where
she attended the conference of the Ma
tional Association fer Nursery Educa-
ton.
Mr.. James Tandy Ellis, Kentucky's
poet, l1umorist and story~teller, will be