Evening star., 1934-08-21

Mr.. Arthur L. Flint OF Friendship
Heights, Md, are spending severa,
weeks In Bermuda.
Miss Marsh to Visit
In New Mexico for Month.
Miss Beatrice H. Marsh, executive
secretary of the National League Of
Women Voters, will leave Thursday
for months stay in New Mexico
She will be the guest of Miss MARY
Bulkley Of Hartford, Conn, a former
director of the national league, at hel
ranch Vermejo in Wagon Mound, N
Mex.
Miss Marsh will later visit at an.
other ranch in Springer, N. Mex, and
before her return to Washington Sep
tember "a, she will attend the World;
Fair in Chicago.
The tremendous interest being
shown by all circles of society in the
current presentations of THE Drunk
ard" atop the Willard Hotel. with the
Roof Players, will be heightened be-
ginning tonight when Mrs. Maud
Howell Smith, wife of Mr.. Eli Bam-
ford Smith, and Washington's most
popular actress and a well known
leader in patriotic, society and drama
circles, will appear for the first time
in one of the leading roles of the
play, appearing as the mother in the
first act.
Mrs. Smith, who with Mr.. Smith
and a number of guests, has been
spending the Summer at her Potomac
River camp, will commute to the city
each night that 1.-The Drunkard" is
played, which normally would be to-
night Thursday and Saturday, but
the remarkable capacity audiences
that have been attending the play
make very probable additional per-
formances beginning Friday of this
week, due. notice of which will be
given tomorrow.
Many reservations among Army and
Navy people and many parties from
outside the city in Maryland and
Virginia are being planned through
the Willard Ticket Bureau for this
weeks presentations of the famous
Barnum melodrama at the Willard.
Mrs. Smith is replacing Mrs. Holman,
wife of Capt. Charles Holman, U. S.
N, who will leave this week with
Capt. Holman for a vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred F. Detweiler are
at the Seaside Hotel in Atlantic City
for visit.
Mrs George F. Mara of Stamford,
Conn, and her niece, Miss Lorraine
Gould, of Milford, Conn, who passed
several days at the Shoreham, will
return tomorrow to their homes. They
have been visiting in Chicago and
Columbus, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond N. Wrenn
and their three sons, Raymond, Rob-
ert and Randolph, of Herndon, Va,
are guests this week of Miss Mary
Holden in Sherbourne. N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. stokely have
arrived in Washington from their
home in Birmingham, Ala, accom-
panied by their daughter, Miss
Deavereux Stokely, and are at the
Carlton.
Mrs. Robert D. Maltby of the
Hollies, Ballston, Va, with her three
children are vacationing at Presque
Isle Lodge, on Grand Lake, at Alpena,
Mich. They win return September /.
Mrs. Lyndon Skinner, accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. Milton E. Kern,
Miss T. Rose Curtis and Miss Emma
Howell left Takoma Park Sunday by
motor for Orlando, Fla. Mrs. Skin
ner. who was formerly Miss Geneva
Kern, has accepted a position in the
Forest Lake Academy where she will
have charge of the home economics
department. The other members of
the party will return after q couple
Of weeks in the South.
MIR. and Mrs. Allen H. Kirk enter
tained at a family reunion over the
week end in their home at Herndon,
Va, when their guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. V. L. Kirk and their children of
Alcova, Va, and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
l.. Hancock and their son and Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Robey and their
children of Washington.
DR.. Elmer R. Shepherd, who has
been spending several weeks at Eagles
Mere. Pa, has returned.
Mrs. Hanes Hostess
Yesterday in Herndon.
Mrs. Harvey E. Hanes entertained
at bridge luncheon yesterday in her
home at Herndon, Va. Her guests
included Mrs. Powell Summers, Mrs.
Annie Robey Walker, Mrs. Charles
Rider, Mrs. George Buell., Mrs. Harold
F. Hanes, Mrs. Lavinia Harrison, Mrs.
Allen H. Kirk, Mrs. William Meyer,
Miss Matilda Decker, Mrs. T. Edgar
Aud and Mrs. Theodore N. Filly.
A surprise linen shower was given
Saturday evening in honor of Miss
Nellie McLendon in the home of Miss
Josephine Hummer at 5825 Fifth
street northwest. The shower was
arranged by Miss Edith Ramsay and
Miss Hummer. Miss McLendon will
leave Washington September 10 for
Denver, Colo, where she will be
married to Mr.. Ronald Willie of
Florida. Among the guests were Miss
EStelle Jorg, Miss Julia Blumenauer,
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