Evening star., 1932-03-15
W0men's National Press
Club Dinner Last Night.

Women important in the political
and social world of Washington were
guests last night at the annual stunt
dinner of the Women'S National Press
Club. given in the ball rooms OF tne
Willard Hotel Members and their
guests assembled In the small ball room
preceding the dinner, the chamber be-
ing turned into a noisy bedlam of hap
DIV greetings. Such a thing as re-
ceiving line was taboo, guests OF honor
finding their way about from group to
group and later joining the general
scuff1e for seats from which to witness
the program, and strangers for the
most part were Self-introduced. Little
care was shown the dangerous subject
of precedence and for the nonce Wom-
en- in official life elbowed famiilarly
with the women writers of washington.
The guests were seated at small ia
bles, and the refreshing finish to the
repast was the cry of Extra" news
women rushing through with copies OF
'The Sex Appeal pa snappy front
page to the Herald which carried the
s'Sex O'Clock Edition and announced
the weather report in jocular manner.
Arthur Brisbane's column was replaced
with snappy personal chat and the clev-
er cartoon showed Madame checking
her husband and baby for the evening
while she hied herself to the Press Club
stunt party.
Much of the local color of a news
paper Office was carried out in the
opening part of the program, part OF
which was "As a Woman Editor Sees
Herself" Eleanor Patterson doing a
clever bit of work that brought forth
peals of laughter. The Senate of the
future with all women in the cast, the
writers admitted to the press gallery as
the cast, was clever and the skit on Mr..
Hoover'S anti-hoarding movement was
better than the best.
There was no head table, the honor
guests of the club being placed at the
various tables, making every table an
honor table.
The honor guests included the wives
of the members of the cabinet, Mrs.
Henry L. Stimson, Mrs. Ogden L. Mills,
Mrs. Patrick j. Hurley, Mrs. William
Dewitt Mitchell, Mrs Walter F. Brown,
Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. Ray
Lyman Wilbur, Mrs. Arthur M Hyde,
Mrs. Robert P. Lamont, Mrs. William
N. Doak, and Mrs. Charles Evans
Hughes, wife of the Chief Justice; Rep
resentative Ruth Baker Pratt, Repre-
sentative Ruth Bryan owen, Repre-
sentative Effiegene Wingo, Representa-
tive Edith Nourse Rogers, Representa-
tive Florence p Kahn and Representa-
tive Mary T. Norton. Mrs. Leonidas c.
Dyer, president of the Congressional
Club; Lady Willmott Lewis, Miss Anna
bel Matthews, member of the United
States Board Of Tax Appeals, and Mrs.
Frank S. Hight.
Two of the honor guests came to the
Capital especially for the party, Mrs.
william Randolph Hearst from New
York and Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry from
Providence.
Others in the large company were
Mrs. James j. Davis, Mrs. Sol Bloom,
Miss Vera Bloom, Mrs. Edward P. Costi-
gan, Mrs. Hiram w. johnson, Mrs.
Clyde Kelly, Mrs. Robert M. La Toilette,
jr.; Mrs. Charles L. McNary, Mrs. Henry
r. Rainey, Mrs Henrik Shipstead, Mrs.
Arthur H. Vandenberg, Mrs. Burton K.
Wheeler, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, jr.; Mrs.
Wallace H. White. jr.; Mrs. Carl VIII
1iams, Mrs. William v. Pratt, Mrs.
Henry VNnum Butler, Mrs. Ralph
Walker Mcdowell, Mrs Smith Hemp
stone, Mrs Jack Marshall, Mrs. George
Barnett, Mrs Emory S. Adams, Mrs.
Grace Lincoln Hall Brosseau, Mrs.
David D. Caldwell, Mrs. George Horace
Lorrimer, Mrs Henry Suydam Mrs.
Joseph Hines, Mrs. Harold N. Krogh,
Mrs. Gertrude Bowman, Miss Doris
Goss, Miss Mildred Hall. Mrs. Ralph
Graves. Mrs Horace N. Albright, Mrs.
F. Lammot Belin, Mrs. Frederick Ben
ton, Mrs. Randolph Coyle, Mrs. Cath
crime Filene Dodd. Nine. Nano, Mrs.
Sidney F. Taliaferro, Mrs. Michael
Flynn, Countess Filicia Gizycka, Mrs.
Hugh Preston, Mrs. George. T. Odell,
Mrs. william D. Wrightson, Mrs. Will
liam NJ. Mann, Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley,
Mrs. Ellis Yost, Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt, Mrs. Harley Peyton Will
son, Dr. Louis Stanley. Mrs Alice Nibley
Smoot, Miss Mary Randolph and others.
Arts Club to Witness
Plays Tomorrow and Thursday.
The Dramatic Committee of the Arts