Evening star., 1936-03-15
News of Local Clubs
Continued From Sixth page.)

Peale Bishop, member Of the South
ern group Of poets.
The Junior group. Of which Miss
Virginia Kinnard is leader, will hold
o dinner bridge at $50 pm. Thurs
day. Miss Eleanor Leech will be the
hostess at this affair.
There will be club luncheon bridge
Friday at / pm.
There will be O French luncheon
Friday at ! pm. M. Rene Samson,
head of the modern languages in the
high schools of the District, will speak
on "Quelques livres francias qui meri-
tent d'etre lus."
There will be a club luncheon Sat-
urday at 1:15 pm, when Miss Malvina
Lindsay of the Washington Post will
speak on THE Development OF the
Woman's Page"
The South Dakota State Society
annual banquet will be held today at
/ O'Clock at the La Fayette Hotel
Jay H. Williams, president, will pre-
side. Following the banquet the men,
bers and their friends will 60 to the
Washington Cathedral. where the
South Dakota flag will be presented
by Senator William ]. Bulow. Bishop
Freeman will accept the flag for the
Cathedral.
Special invited guests are former
Commissioner and Mrs. Charles H
Burke, Senator and Mrs. Bulow, SEN
ator and Mrs Norbeck, Representative
and Mrs. Werner, First Assistant
Postmaster General and Mrs w. w
Howes and Mr.. and Mrs. Royal C.
johnson.
Officers Of the club who have par
ticipated in making arrangements for
the banquet are Jay H. Williams, pres
ident; Miss Vera Mankinen, vice pres
ident; Miss Nadine Russell. treasurer;
Mrs Gladys r. Nichols, secretary; Ex-
ecutive Committee-Carl M. Walker
chairman; Dawes Brisbine, william J
Bulow. jr., and Rowland w. Jones.
The CIercIe des Precieuses RidicuIes
met Wednesday evening at the Bur-
lington Hotel, being received by Nine
Marie Howe Spur and M. Charles H
Probert. The meeting was opened by
the president, NJ William J. Wallis.
Nine. Marie Howe Spur opened the
program with piano solo, lie Soir, u
by Schumann, and played as an en-
core lie Petit Ane Blanc" by Ibert
Nine. William J. Wallis followed with
a reading, "L'AlSacienne," by j. de la
Morlais. M. Henri Lazard read q
number of anecdotes M. Dore Wal
ten, cellist, with Nine. Marie Howe
Spur at the piano, played "Chanson
de l'Etoile du Soir," by Wagner. and,
as an encore, "Serenade Badine," by
Gabriel Marie. Mile. Undine Livau-
dais and NJ Carlos Blum followed with
a comedy entitled Dams un Ascenseur.
Closing the program with q paper on
"Algernon Charles Swinburne ct la
Poesie Francaise," M. Charles H.
Probert read two Of Swinburne's
French poems. together with his own
readings into French verse of two Of
his English poems, one being The
Garden Of Proserpine."
The Susan B. Anthony Forum will
meet at the Y. w. C. A. tomorrow eve
ming. Mrs. Clestelle Lewis, impersona-
tor, will discuss the dramatic posi-
bilities in the historic events of the
woman movements. Mrs Rose Arnold
Powell will review the appropriations
made by Congress in this and other
administrations for memorial projects
honoring men. Plans for a public
meeting in April will be considered.
Arrangements have been made for
several weeks extension of the ex-
hibit of the Susan B. Anthony, May
Wright SewaH and other collections
in the main exhibition gallery on the
second floor OF the Library of Con-
gress. These collections are perma-
nentiy located in the rare book section.
The Junior Women's Club will meet
Tuesday evening at the home of Miss
Eva Smythe, 7 Grant avenue, Takoma
Park, Md. Miss Clara Mae Tarbett
and Miss Patricia Davis will assist the
hostess.
An Evening of Irish Music" will be
given. Contralto, Elsie Sutter Raddle;
violiniSt. Virginia Cureton Lepphard; ;
tenor, John Hall, and accompanies,
Gertrude Dyer Parsons and Marguerite
Lucker.
The Osteopathic Women's ASsocia-
tion will meet Thursday at 1890.
Luncheon at Golfers Inn, 1854 Co.
lumbia road. Mrs. Louis Gutenberg
Of the Voteless District of Columbia
League of Women Voters will speak on
"Civic Affairs" Hostesses are DR..
Della Matson and Mrs. Chester D.
Swope.
The proceeds from the card party
to be held the afternoon Of April 18
will be used for camp vacations for
underprivileged children this Summer.
Potomac Grange. No. /, will be ad-
dressed by Mime. Olivia Rossetti Agresti
of Rome, Italy, Me rch 10 at pm. in
All Souls Church. The public is in
vited.
The business meeting will start at
8 pm, with Worthy Master M. S.
Garland presiding. The lecture will
begin at 9 O'Clock, with Lecturer K.
M. Wallace acting as master of cere-
monies.
The Woman's Club of Chevy Chase
will meet Wednesday in the Chevy
Chase Presbyterian Church. Mrs.
Charles E. Wainwright will be the
hostess for luncheon at 1915. The
business meeting will follow, with the
president, Mrs. Frank A. Linzel pre-
siding.
A group of songs will be rendered
by the sextet from the music sec
ton. Thomas Waterman Of the Ma
tional Park Service will give an illus
trated lecture on Virginia Colonial
Architecture.
The drama section will meet tomor-
row at pm. in the home of Mrs.
Harry Fillmore Lowe, with Mrs. James
F. Davidson in charge Of the pro-
gram. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary"
by st. John Irvine, will be read under
tha diractio,, of NHrc navidc0n and