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SOCIETY
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speaker. Others at the speakers table
were Mr.. A. j. Pickett of st. Louis, Mr.
Robert johnson, Mrs. Clyde Williams
Mrs. Edwin Davis and Representative
Clarence Cannon. Mrs. Edward Keating
entertained party. her guests includ-
ing Mrs. John j. Cochran and DR.. and
Mrs George L. Knapp. Some of the
others at the luncheon, many with
guests, were Mrs George M. Eckels,
Mrs. c. F. Russell, Mrs. Florence B.
Livingston, Mrs. Donald Macdonald,
Mrs c. K Harmon, Mrs. Charles Lewis,
Mrs. Edward P. Costigan, Mrs. Rufus
Weaver, Mrs. P. H Stewart, Mrs. David
Tucker Brown. Mrs Charles Hamlin,
Mrs William L. Beale, Mrs Alexander
M. Bull, Mrs. NJ A. j. Markley and Mrs.
f. B. Prettyman.
The Columbia Players, thrice win
ners of the District one-act play tour
nament, will present Philip Barry's de-
lightful ccmedy. Holiday" at Ward
man Park Theater tonight and to-
morrow
Among the organizations sponsoring
the production are the Soroptim st
Club, Theta Kappa Sigma Sorority,
the Womans Guild of the Epiphany
Church and the Junior Guild of the
Church of Our Savior.
The players director, Orris Holland,
lists command performance before
the King and Queen of England and
the Prince of Wales as the most thrill
ing experience in his 20 years of pro-
fessional acting. The play was Friend
ly Enemies" which ran for a year
and half in London under the direc
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Brooke. The command performance
took place in a huge ball room of
Buckingham Palace and each player
was rewarded by sprig of heliotrope
from the Queens bouquet.
The first annual apple blossom ball,
to be held at the Shoreham Friday,
May 6, now is only 10 days away, and the
queen, maid of honor and ladies in
waiting are busy getting their royal
raiment ready. The Floor Committee
of 80 girls, composed of post-debs,
debs and subdebs, and 30 of the popu-
lar young men of Washington, is re-
hearsing for the march" when it
will escort the queen and her royal
family to her throne on the stage in
the main ball room. The ball is under
the patronage of Mrs. Russell Bennett,
Mrs. Gregg G. Birdsall, Mrs Harold
Brooks. Mrs. Barron p Du Bois, Mrs.
Henry L. Gibbins, Mrs. Theodore Gill,
Mrs. Arthur Macarthur, Mrs. Arthur
McElroy, Mrs. Thomas W. Page, Mrs.
Benjamin c. Perry and Mrs. Wayne
Wirgman. Reservations for tables are
being made by Mrs. Helen Ray Hagner
at the Shoreham. under whose direction
the ball is being given.
Mrs. George Ryan was hostess at din
ner Sunday evening in the silver grill
at the Broadmoor in compliment to
Mrs. George Cooper, State regent of the
D. A. R., for the State of Washington.
Other guests included Mrs. Eliza Ferry
Leary of Seattle. Wash; Mrs. Sherman
Walker, Mrs. Baughn Ragdon and Mrs.
Hadley, wife of Representative Hadley
of Bellingham, Wash.
Mrs. Francis L. Bledsoe and Miss
Beatrice Clark of New York City
motored to Washington and are spend
ing the week at the Shoreham
DR.. and Mrs. Edward L. D. Hester of
Englewood, N. j., accompanied by Mr.
and Mrs. Henry R. Alpaugh of West
Englewood. came to this city a day or
two ago to spend some time and are
stopping at Wardman Park Hotel.
Miss Miriam Hosmer and Miss Mil
dred M Stanton of Pawtucket, r. l.,
are passing few days at the Dodge.
Miss Margaret Dorsey of Everett,
Mass, is at the Shoreham for the
week.