The Washington times., 1935-11-12
NOW
Tibbett Is Friend
Of Ushers
SHIRT STORY
BY HELEN ESSARY

hours the baritone signed his
name and swapped stories. 1t was
after 8 o'clock when the ushers
got home to their anxious families,
Unlike Mr.. Tibbett, Fritz krelS'
Ter is not given to autographing.
After a concert the Viollnlst taoes
out as the lights are turned OIL.
Earthquakes and quick divorces
aren't the only home wreckerS!
The Newspaper Women's CLUB
has to move from that fine man
sion on H Street. Why? Because
the building is to be torn down to
make room for parking space.
Isn't civilization silly?
The belief tina women can't
manage money is out Of date fic-
ton. It belongs to the helpless
little-woman era.
Not only do women now manage
their own bank accounts, they
look after the checks and deposits
of strong, silent men. And you find
them holding important jobs in
big banking organizations.
Some up and coming women
bankers are in New Orleans this
week attending a bankers meet
ing. Miss Winifred Burwell, Of the
National Metropolitan Bank, is a
member of the general committee
of the National Association OF
Bank Women, which is holding its
sessions in New Orleans at the
same time the American Bankers
Association, to which women are
not yet eligible, is considering fl
nances ani general Sociability.
Another member of the Wom-
ems Association is Miss Helen
knox, of the Chase National
Bank in New York. Miss Knox
is assistant treasurer Of the Rob-
ert E. Lee Memorial Foundation
and came down to the dedica-
ton of Stratford fortnight ago.
Mr.. Joshua Evans, jr., Of the
Hamilton National Bank in Wash
ington, tells me that although
women have not yet been taken
into the Bankers Association,
their talent for banking is being
more and more appreciated by
men bankers.
This isn't remarkable because
It is the woman who spends
nine-tenths of the family income
for feed and clothing. She ought
to know something about money.
Mr.. Evans remembers the time
during the World War when he
was a vice president of the Riggs
Bank and the women teachers OF
the public schools were great
help to the bankers. Many mem
hers of the banks force were i'll
with influenza. The school teach
ers did the work of the Liberty
Loan subscription department
magnificently.
Official Note:
Stuffed Shirts originated IN
England in the early Sixteenth
Century. They are that old ana
muSty.
Then. as now, they were dis
ruise. A padding that suggested
a substance that didn't exist in
sixteenth Century London any
oftener than it does in Wash
ington.
Henry VIII set the stuffed
shirt style. Only his stuffed
shirt--was natural. He was SO
pompous under his chin and ABOUT
his waist that he couldn't endure
the contrasting stream lines OF
slim courtiers. So Henry-there
was a man who knew how to get
what he wanted-called in the
royal tailor.
make my figure the model for
masculine beauty" he said.
The tailor coughed little. He
felt the back Of his neck where
the ak might fall if he didn't
saw the right thing. And coughed
again. And pondered. And said:
Certainly, Your M a es y.
Some of these young courtierS
are hideously thin. shall tell
them to stuff their shirts until
their figures look more manly"
To be honest, Stuffed Shirts
aren't awfully in vogue in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Cordell Hull is not going
to more than two lunches a week
this winter. Last season she was
q luncheon guest of honor every
day for weeks and weeks. {.
Donald Richberg, who says he
didn't cook anybody's goose in
his new NRA book. is a swell
cook in his own kitchen. Stop
in some Thursday night. The
Karl Corbys are flying enthusi-
asts. They often take plane
to Miami Beach to visit Mr..
Corby's mother. Mrs. Charles I
Corby. Mrs. Karl Corby and
Mrs. j. Thilman Henrick. two
attractive young matrons, are
sisters and you often see them
together.
The gorgeous Ruth Bryan
Owen, American Minister to
Denmark, who is in Washington
now, has a delightful sister,
Grace Dexter Bryan. Miss
Bryan has been less in the pub
lie eye than her sister. but