Evening star., 1935-03-06
Benefit Party for d. C.
Pct. A. Tonight.

Benefit Party for ID. G.
Pct. A. Tonight.
Mrs. Walter B. Fry, firSt vict
president of the District of Columbis
Congress of Parents and Teachers, i:
acting chairman for card and bingC
party, to be given by the congress
this evening at 8 o'clock, in the
Roosevelt High School. This is q
city-wide effort on the part of the
District of Columbia Parent
Association, and proceeds from the
affair will be used for general eX-
penses.
Assisting Mrs. Fry are Mrs. How
ard Jones of the Whittier School Par
ert-Teacher Association, who will
have charge of homemade candy
which will be for sale; Mrs. G. r
Eherly of the Woodbridge association
homemade cakes; Mrs. Clarence
Graham, Phoebe Hearst association
tables, and Mrs. Joseph H. Weikel
Buchanan association, tallies.
Mrs. William Meyer of the Henry
D. Cooke association and Mrs. C. H
Bair of Roosevelt will be in charge
of the bingo room, and Mrs. E. O.
Carl of the Powell Junior High School
association is responsible for the
prizes.
Two gypsy fortune tellerS will carry
out the carnival spirit of the Russian
bal masque at the Shoreham Hotel
Saturday evening, when the Russian
colony here will cerebrate its gayeSt
festival, "Maslenitza" To reveal the
identity of these readers of the future
would spoil all the fun, so Mr.. Boris
Timchenko, chairman of the festival
is keeping their names an entire
secret.
Novel entertainment for the amuse-
ment of guests during dance inter-
missions has been planned by Miss
Titiana de Blumenthal and members
of her committee Miss Lisa Gardner
and Miss Alice Louise Hunter will
dance the famous "Obertass," by
Wieniawski, and a group of her star
pupils will present Dvorak's Dance
Caucasian" Russian gypsy singers
will be heard in gay folk songs, part
Of the traditional celebration of the
feast, "the day Of forgiveness before
Lent according to the old Gregoriar
calendar.
Two prizes will be awarded those
wearing costumes which best portray
characters from Russian fairy tales
the motif of the ball. A Russian
sarnovar, as first prize, and as second
prize wooden jewel box decorated in
the gay colors and designs of Russian
peasant art. Mr. Eben F. Comins
Mrs. Frederick Colby and Mr.. Walcott
Waggaman are the judges.
Nine. MiShtoWt is in charge Of
sponsors for the bal masque, a par
tial list of patrons and patronesses
including Mrs. Charles L. McNary
Admiral and Mrs. Mark L. Bristol
Prince ana Princess Ourosoff, Mrs
Cantacuzene-Grant, Mrs. Arthur Nc
Arthur, Mrs. George T. Marye, Mrs
Walter A. Tuckerman and Mrs. J. j
Mack.
Proceeds from the festival will &c
to the st. Nicholas Russian Orthodox
Church here.
Miss Kathleen Steele, kindergarten
teacher at Wheatley School anc
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. S
Steele of Purcellville, Va, whose mar
riage to Mr.. Curtis T PaxSon, also
of Purcellville, will take place this
Spring, was the guest of honor at g
bridge party and a miscellaneous
shower Monday evening of Miss Kitty
Hoge in her home at 1705 Kenyon
street northwest.
The teachers at Wheatley School
gave a linen shower for Miss Steele
on Friday evening at the home of
Mrs. Byron Brooks in Oakcrest, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nat Hynes, with their
two children, Bob and Mary Esther,
have returned to their home in Clar-
endon after months visit at st.
Petersburg, Fla, where they were the
guests Of Mrs Hynes' parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ottgen of Adrian, Mich, who
spend the Winter season in that
Southern resort each year.
Miss Mary Hecox has returned to
her home in Clarendon, Va, after
spending the Winter with her brother
in El Paso, Tex En- route home she
made a short visit in Chicago.
Mrs. Charles Y. Latimer, president
of the Takoma Park Women's Demo-
cratic Club, with Mrs. Arthur l.. Rey-
nolds, Mrs. Vernon Brewster, Mrs.
Mildred Burr and Miss Jane Austin,
will leave tomorrow for Richmond to
attend the second regional district
conference of the Women's National
Democratic Committee at the John
Marshall Hotel, which will be held
tomorrow and Friday.
The Secretary of Labor, Miss
Frances Perkins, will be among the
prominent speakers.
Mrs. Louis Carl, Mrs Claude S.
Semones. Mrs. Catherine Rogers and
Mrs. Elizabeth Magruder will go to-
morrow to Richmond to attend the
Institute Of Government Affairs,
which convenes this week. They will
go as delegates from the Democratic
Women's Club of Arlington County,
and will stop at the John Marshall
Hotel during their stay.
Mrs G. w Saar who recently sold