Evening star., 1936-10-25

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~ Women's City Club today,
4 \ when Mrs. Anne Tillery Rem
shaw will speak. Miss Catherine r.
Watkins, chairman, will be assisted
by Miss c. E. Thompson, Mrs. Pauline
E. Everhart, Mrs. Sydney r. Jacobs,
Miss Margaret Vail and Mrs. Luther
C. Stewart. New members to be pre-
sented are Mrs. Elwood Seal, Miss
Daisy Prentice and Miss Nellie NJ
Corbett. Miss Elsie T. Ottinger Of
Baltimore will be the guest of honor.
Walter E. Myer, editor of the Amer
lean Observer. will give resume of
the times at the meeting of the
current events section Tuesday at
4:45 pm.
Anna Benson Lockersperger, Swedish
mezzo-soprano, and Mary liant Couch,
pianist, will be presented in a pro-
gram of music Wednesday at 8 pm.
DR.. Edwin N. c. Barnes will give g
lecture-recital, Artistic Submits"
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, president,
announces the club is taking an active
part in the city-wide celebration of
Halloween. Mrs. Wiley is chairman
OF the civic section of the parade, Mrs.
E. Richard Gasch is chairman of the
Committee on Selection of Queens,
Marion Goshorn has been entered by
the club for the queen and the ladies
of her court, Mrs. Marie Moore For
rest, Miss Sybil Baker and Mrs. J. Ed
win Reid have taken an active part in
the preparation of a float entered in
the name of the club. Mrs. Wiley has
arranged to have 173 boys from the
various boys clubs to march as one
unit in the parade.
Twentieth Century Club.-The lit
erature section will meet under its new
chairman, Mrs. Harold G. Moulton, to-
morrow at 8 pm. at the Y. w. C. A.
The program includes translations
from japanese poetry, presented by
Mrs. w. r. Maxon; a review of Brad
ford Smiths ITO the Mountain by
Mrs. E. G. Nourse. and a review of
Baroness Shidzue Ishomotos Facing
Two Ways" by Mrs. Harold G. Moul-
ton.
The nature section will meet at
10:30 am. Thursday at New Mexico
and Nebraska avenues, Wesley Heights,
and will be conducted by Mrs. D. Ag-
new Greenlees.
The garden section will meet at 2
pm. Friday at 1925 Albemarle street.
Mrs. Stephen Olop will discuss prob
lens involved in her own gardening.
Members are asked to report on in
teresting gardens visited during the
past Summer.
The board of directors will meet
Thursday at II am. at the Y. w. C. A.
The Brooks Club met October 13 in
Notre Dame School Hall and elected
the following officers: President,
Michael Godfrey; vice president, Will
liam I. Hayes; recording and corre-
spending secretary, Miss Theresa Nc
Carthy; financial secretary, Miss Cath
crime Ashley; treasurer, Miss Mary
Mattingly. The board of directors in
clude Mrs. r. H. Scrogglns and John
F. McMorrow, for two-year terms:
Miss Elizabeth King, Miss Alice Duffy,
Daniel Martin and John Klotz, for
one-year terms.
A special meeting of the officers and
board was held on Wednesday evening
to discuss and formulate plans for the
coming year. The dates for such ac-
tivities as bingo parties. card parties,
dances, lectures, hikes. socials, will be
announced in the near future.
The next regular meeting Of the
club will be held November 10 at
$50 pm.
The Philo Classics Club met Octo-
ber 16 with Mrs. Ira Shantz.
A paper. written by Mrs. L. H.
Bentley, on the subject of The Rise
of the New Monarchy in England at
the Time of Richard ILL.," was read.
The club continued the reading OF
Richard III.
American Association of University
W0men.-A luncheon meeting of the
board of directors, a tea and a talk
on current events by Walter E. Myers
are the outstanding events scheduled
at the club house tomorrow. The
Membership Committee and the Gre
ative writing group will meet in the
afternoon.
Walter E. Myer, director of the
Civil Education Service and editor of
the American Observer, will discuss
the coming election following the tea
tomorrow at 4 pm. This will be his
third year as political commentator
at the club and he will speak every
fourth Monday this Winter and
Spring. Mrs. George B. Woods will
be hostess at the tea.
The creative writing group will meet
in room 401 at pm.
An old-fashioned square dance will
be sponsored by the Hospitality Com
mittee Wednesday evening.
The weekly contract bridge series
is beginning and will be held in the
club lounge each Friday at 7:30 pm.
Mrs. w. T. O'Leary announces its
opening next week to all members.
Mrs Richard Hogue, assisted by
Mrs. Wood Gray and Mrs. Joseph
Owen, will open the study program
of the Martha MacLear poetry group
Thursday at II am. with a discus
sion of symbolistic and romantic
poetry. Mrs. Hogue will review the
relationship between postwar Ameri-
can and British poetry and the
French symbolist school, with exam
Piles from T. S. Eliot and Yeats.
The international relations study
group will meet to select the topic
for their years study November at
7:30 pm. Mrs. D. Carlson and Mrs.
D. v. Sandifer will lead the discus
sions this Winter.
"The Setting of the Art Treasures
of Bruges, Belgium" will be the sub
ject of Alice Evans talk before the
art appreciation group Thursday eve
ming. Miss Heloise Brainerd will tell
of "A Study Of FL Greco Made During
a Recent Visit to Spain"