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made by Mrs. Buell. and Mrs. Bready.
Operatic Evening Tonight
At International Art Forum.

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An operatic evening offering ex-
cerpts from the operas "Pagliacci,"
Carmen" and Rigoletto" will be pre-
sented tonight by the international
Art Forum in the Washington Clup
at 1910 Seventeenth street at o:4o
o'clock.
The program, arranged by Miss
Marjorie Lowe of GunSton Hail
School, will present four prominent
singers, Regina Vicarino, soprano;
Anne Yago McGuffey. contralto;
Justin LaWrie, tenor, and Harlan Ran
dali, baritone.
Among those who have accepted
invitations are the Minister of Vene-
zuela and Sonora de Arcaya, the
Minister Of Panama and Sonora de
Alfaro, the Minister of Ell Salvador
and Sonora de Castro, the Minister
of Costa RIca and Sonora de Con-
zalez and the secretary of the Co.
lombian Legation and Sonora de
GonzaleZ-FernandeZ.
Washington society will be well rep
resented at the Spring festival to be
given by the Womens Board of the
George Washington University Hos
pital Thursday afternoon, April 4, at
the Chevy Chase School, under the
craftsmanship of Mrs. Frederic E.
Harrington, with Mrs. Willard Hayes
Yeager as vice chairman. Cards,
popular at all seasons of the year, will
be featured during the early part OF
the afternoon, beginning at 2 O'Clock,
followed by tea at o'clock, with Mrs.
Eugene Byrnes as hostess, assisted by
members of the committee. Many
other attractive features, such as for
tune telling, a sale of bags, and white
elephants and what not-all done in
the best manner" of the Women's
Board of G.. w. U. Hospital, OF which
Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor is president.
Mrs. William Howard Taft will not
only be included among the sponsors
for the festival event, but Will also
be a table hostess at cards, as Will
Mrs. Wade H. Ellis, Mrs. Jacob Lean
der Loose and Mrs. John Allen Dough-
erty. The list of prominent women
who are sponsors for the benefit in
cludes Nine. SEE, wife of the Chinese
Minister; Mrs. Royal S. Copeland,
Mrs. Arthur H Vandenburg, Mrs. Mar
Gus A. Coolidge, Mrs. Harry H. Wood
ring, Mrs. John c. Boyd, Mrs. Proctor
L. Dougherty, Mrs. Robert Griggs,
Mrs, John B. Larner, Mrs. Fulton
Lewis, Mrs. Luther Halsey Reichel-
derfer, Mrs. George c. Rutland and
Mrs. George F. Bowerman.
The committee in charge OF table
prizes is composed of Mrs. John A.
Reed and Mrs. Lester Douglas. and
Mrs, Yeager, in charge of tickets for
the event, is being assisted by
committee headed by Mrs. Walter r.
Hilton, comprising Mrs. Allbritton,
Mrs. Van Week, Mrs. William Aspin-
wall, Mrs. w. B. Collier, Mrs. John
Paul Earnest, Mrs. George jenkins,
Mrs. F. D. Let's, Mrs. Russell McNitt,
Mrs. Charles R. Mann, Mrs. E. H.
Sehrt, Mrs. Lloyd Sutton and Mrs.
Frank Wolff.
Other features Of the Spring festi-
val will be in the able hands OF Mrs.
Edward Goring Bliss, Mrs. Carl Droop,
Mrs. Gustav Emery, Mrs. Henry AL
bers. Mrs. William H. Sholes, Mrs. E.
C. Brandenberg and Mrs. Cabot Ste
vens.
A civic luncheon will be given
under the auspices Of the Washing
ton Campaign Committee for Better
Housing In the ball room Of the
Mayflower Hotel Friday, April S, at
/ o'clock. The luncheon is planned
to publicize the Federal housing pro-
gram, as it can be used locally. to
inform people that there IS such
thing and how it works.
Mrs. John S. Bennett is general
chairman for the luncheon and the
Advisory Committee includes Mrs. Ar
thur F. Mullen, Mrs. Harvey Wiley,
Mrs. Louis B. Castell, Miss Mae Muir
ray and Mr.. James LanSburgh.
Mrs. Key Pittman is chairman of
seating arrangements, Mrs. Emil
Hurja, for table decorations; Mrs.
Charles P. Stewart, for publicity, and
Miss Carolyn Huston Thompson, di-
rector for seating arrangements.
The speakers will include Repre-
sentative Mary T. Norton, chairman
of the District Committee; Federal
housing administrator, Mr.. James A.
Moffett; Mr.. j. K. GilchriSt, director
of the District for Federal Housing
Administration; Mrs. Charles Nc
Laughlin, wife of Representative
Mclaughlin of Nebraska, and Mr. Paul
Fitzpatrick, assistant director of pub
lie relations of Federal Housing Ad-
ministration.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allison Armour, I'd,
are at the Carleton, having arrived
from their home in Princeton, N. j.
Mrs. j. P. Rice of Cambridge, Mass,
accompanied by her daughters, Is
stopping at the Willard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas T. Bowers
have arrived here from Charleston,
S. c., and will spend several days at
the Martinique before going to their
home in Winnipeg, Canada.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. Fredericks of
Brookline, Mass, have come to the
Capital for week or 10 days and are
at the Shoreham:
Mr. and Mrs. w. C. Sipple, jr., have
come from Florida to spend the Spring
season and have taken an apartment
at the Wardman Park Hotel
Mrs. Fred w. Moore of st. Clair,
Mich, accompanied by Miss Caroline
Moore and Mr.. Jack Moore, is spend
ing some time at the Willard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul w. Peavy Of
Dobbs Ferry, N. Y, are at the Mar
Unique for the early Spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. James c. Kennedy of
Corpus Christi, Tex, are staying at
the Willard while visiting in Wash
ington.
Dust Booms Broom Sales.
CLAY CENTER, Kans. LR.-
Found! Somebody for whom an Ill
Kansas dust wind blows good. A
broom factory here reports an ava
lanche of orders from its territory,
most of which Is in the dust-ridden