Evening star., 1936-04-12

American Pen Women will
i open this afternoon with 500
delegates and members in attendance.
There will be reception in the Bur-
iington Hotel at o'clock rendered by
the District of Columbia branch to
the national president, Mrs. Victoria
Faber Stevenson, and out-of-town
guests.
The celebrated authors breakfast
will be held tomorrow at noon at the
Willard Hotel There will be speeches
and music.
The presentation of the national
prize play tomorrow night, recep-
ton at the White House on Friday
afternoon and the election of officers
are other high spots Of the weeks
convention.
Beth Heath Olmstead, district
president and national treasurer, will
be in e receiving line with Mrs.
Stevenson this afternoon. Miss Mar
guerite Merigold is chairman Of the
Social Committee, and Miss Katherine
Former National Presidents Mrs.
Edna Coleman, Ada o. Du Puy and
Mrs. Mabel White and Past District
Presidents DR.. Jean Stephenson, Mrs.
Thedora Tiller, Azalia Green Badgley
and Estelle Moses will likewise be in
the receiving line. with the National
Board and the Executive Board OF the
district branch.
Mrs. Emil Hurja, member of the
~ oI, oyNto will no
pourers at the tea table, assisted by
Mrs Gilbert Grosvenor. Mrs. Truxtun
Beale, Edness Kimball wilkins. Helen
Ray Hagner and Mrs. Homer L. Kilt.
Headquarters for the convention are
at the willard Registration will take
place tomorrow afternoon and Tues
day morning. when the convention will
be called to order by Mrs. Stevenson
for the five days of business, annual
reports and election of officers.
The National Executive Board of
the National Society, Daughters of
Founders and Patriots Of America,
will meet at 1928 l street Wednesday
at 10 am.
The annual dinner of the National
Society will be held Wednesday at 7
o'clock at the Washington Hotel.
The thirty eighth general court will
convene at the Washington Hotel at
10 o'clock Thursday. Three coun-
cilors are to be elected to fill vacan-
cies caused by expiring terms Of Mrs.
Edwin c. Miller, Maiden, Mass; Mrs.
Maurice Vansant sweeney, Overlook,
Pa, and Mrs. Willis Hitting, White
haven, Tenn.
American Association of University
Women.-Following the tea tomorrow
Auriel Bessemer. artist, will talk on
the Philosophy of Art" followed by
O meeting at Sis.
The evening book review section
will meet Tuesday at 8 pm. Mrs.
William Lee Corbin will review
Edna, His Wife by Margaret Ayres
Barnes.
Mrs. Winters Haydock will discuss
the Moscow Art Theater at the drama
study group Wednesday at IL. fol-
lowed by luncheon, when the Rus
slams who have been attending the
group WILL De guests OF nOnOr.
There will be an international re-
lations dinner Wednesday at 7. Mrs.
Laura Puffer Morgan. special repre-
sentative of the National Council for
the Prevention of War in Geneva will
speak.
The Martha MacLear poetry group
meets Thursday at II. Mrs. Charles
E. Osgood will present program of
the postwar poets and Miss Eliza
beth Merle Carhart will assist with
the reading.
Miss Sibilla Skidelsky a young Rus
sian, will speak on ALFRED de Musset
ct son Oeuvre Poetique" at the French
luncheon, Friday at l.
There will be club bridge lunch
con Friday at lis.
Representative Vergil Chapman of
Kentucky will discuss food, drug and
cosmetic legislation at the Education
Committee luncheon Saturday at lis
pm.
A dinner dance for all members will
be Saturday at Z pm.
Women's City Club.-Mrs. H. H. A.
Beach, dean of American women COM
posers, will be the guest of honor at
reception and musicale given by the
music section Thursday from 4:30 to
$50. Other guests who will be greeted
by members of the club will be men,
bers of the League of American Pen
Women and Composers as well as those
artists who are performing works Of
the women composers.
The Columbia Heights Art Club had
its annual meeting and election OF
officers at the home of Mrs. Mahlon
A. Winter. The officers are: President,
Mrs. M. A. Winter; vice president,
Mrs. Charles Hoover; recording secre-
tary, Mrs. Joseph McCuen; corre-
spending secretary, Mrs. George A.
Cooke; treasurer, Mrs. De Witt Crois-
SAINT; press reporter, Mrs. G. L. Peck
ham; director to District Federation of
Womens Clubs Miss Cornelia Hill.
The Woman's Club Of Sixteenth
Street Highlands met at the home Of
Mrs. Robert L. Haycock on Longfellow
street. The president, Mrs. 2. Lewis
Dalby, presided.
Mrs. Pierre M. Bealer gave a re-
view Of the book THE Exile" portrait
of an American mother, by Pearl s.
Buck Mrs. George c. Shoemaker read
an original paper, THE Famous
Places in the United States"
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs. Harry v. Lansdale
when Mrs. Elmon l.. Burton will be
In charge Of the special feature for
the day and Mrs. Lansdale will act as
program chairman.
The Women's Osteopathic Associa-
tons annual meeting will be held
Thursday at 1890 pm, with luncheon,
at Golfers Inn, 1907 Columbia road.
A card party will be held Saturday
afternoon at Chestnut Farms Dairy
auditorium Call Cleveland 1897 for