Evening star., 1935-02-18

good entertained at luncheon today at
the Mayflower Hotel.
Benefit at National Tonight.
Bryn Mawr Scholarship Fund.
A brilliant audience will greet the
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company tonight
when they present THE Gondoliers,"
famous Gilbert and Sullivan opera,
for the benefit Of the Bryn Mawr
scholarship fund. The performance
is sponsored by the Bryn Mawr Club
of Washington in the interests Of its
scholarship fund, wherewith the club
keeps one unusually promising young
woman from Washington at the col
lege. Chief Justice and Mrs. Hughes
will occupy orchestra seats and Mr..
Justice and Mrs. Stone will be the
guests of Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Rob-
erts.
Miss Olivia Stokes is the president
of the Bryn Mawr Club, which tonight
will open the drive for $4,000, which
is the Washington quota for the
ST ,00O, 900 endowment fund that the
college has undertaken to raise this
year, the fiftieth anniversary Of the
college.
Representative Isabelle Greenway,
who will be one of the guests of the
British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lind
say, this evening, will give three
minute talk from the platform be-
tween the two acts Of the opera to
initiate the drive. A group Of proni-
nent young society women will sell
libretti in the lobby before the per-
formance.
Others who will be present tonight
at the National Theater-which Sat-
urday evening had but a round dozen
of tickets left on sale-will be Mr.. and
Mrs. Elbridge Gerry, Mrs. Gibson
Fahnestock, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose,
Mrs. Levi Cooke and her daughters,
the Misses Cooke; Mr.. and Mrs.
Stephen Upson, Miss Rose Page, Mr..
Buel w. Patch, Mr.. and Mrs. William
S. Culbertson, Miss Elizabeth Morri-
son, Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis,
Mrs. Stuart Fuller, Mrs. r. H. A.
Carter, Mrs. S. A. Simpson and Mr..
H. F. Weaver Of the Canadian lega-
ton. Mr.. and Mrs. Waldron Faulkner
will entertain a party consisting of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ringland, Miss
Helen Ericsson, Miss Alice Coonley,
Miss Eleanor Coonley and Mr.. Ru-
dolph Schoenfeld, and Mrs. Ward
Canaday will entertain box party.
Mrs. Charles ]. Williamson enter
tanned at luncheon at the Shoreham
today for Mrs. William Fitch Kelley.
The luncheon, which was held in the
Carlo room, was one of a series Mrs.
Williamson is giving. Among those
present we're Mrs. Harry Ransley,
wife Of Representative Ransley; Mrs.
Nathaniel B. Dial, Mrs. Perry L.
Miles, Mrs. Eldon P. King, Mrs. James
Elwood Jones, Mrs. Frank w. Mon
| dell, Mrs. Charles w. Richardson,
Mrs. John Marshall, Mrs. James
Strong, Mrs. William Guthrie, Mrs.
Eugene r. Woodson, Mrs. Theodore
Tiller, Mrs. William Woodward Cook,
Mrs. Albert P Gore, Mrs. Edward
Graves, Mrs William D. Searle, Mrs.
Morris Evans, Mrs. William Mark
Conrad. Mrs. James K. Jones. jr.;
Mrs. Gardiner P. Orme, Mrs. Adam
Weir, Mrs. Alvin Steuart Maddox, Mrs.
| Moncure Berg, Mrs. William z. Elliott,
Mrs. j. Clinton Tribby, Mrs. S. Lo-
man Hoover, Mrs. Benjamin Hill,
Mrs. Moncure Burke, Mrs Henry c.
Athens, Mrs. Edward A. Keys, Mrs.
Virginia B. Molyneaux, Mrs. Kath-
crime Fenton, Mrs Elizabeth Northrop,
Mrs. Jessie w. Walters. Mrs. Mar
shall Leighton, Mrs. John Walker Hol-
combe, Mrs. Stuart Walker, Mrs.
Ernest H. Daniel, Miss McNierny, Miss
Janet Richards, Miss Marybelle Gore,
Miss Flora Wilson and Miss Meta Nor
ris Evans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jouett Shouse have
postponed the dinner they were to
give tonight until Monday, February
Is, because of the death of Mr.. Desha
Breckenridge.
Mr. and Mrs. Shouse entertained at
a cocktail party yesterday.
Miss Martha Davidge. debutante
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Wash
ington Davidge, will sail for Italy Feb
ruary 81 to visit Miss Christine Long,
daughter of the American Asbassador
to Italy and Mrs. Breckinridee Long.
She will be in Italy six weeks. Miss