Evening star., 1936-04-05
Breakfast to Feature
Pen WOmen'S Session
Eighth Biennial Convention Opens at Willard
Easter Sunday, Lasting for
Week.
N AUTHORS breakfast will be

~ ennial convention of the Ma
4 a tional League of American
Pen Women which opens here on
Easter Sunday and continues through
April l8. The breakfast will be held
at the Willard Hotel on April l3 Mrs.
Victoria Faber Stevenson, national
president, will preside.
The convention will formally open
on Sunday afternoon with the District
Chapter reception to Mrs. Stevenson
at the Burlington Hotel.
Jennie Harris Oliver of Cache.
Okla, writer of the "Moky" stories.
will be one of the many guests OF
honor and give nnonologue at the
breakfast. Fielding Burke, in private
life Mrs. Olive T. Dargan; Frederick
Lambeck, author of Best IN the
Greenwood; Frank A. Tichenor, pub
Usher of 1.-The Spur" and r. D. w.
Connor, United States archivist, Will
be guests. Mrs. Ada Dwyer Russell.
literary executrix of Amy Lowell, will
interpret two of Miss Lowells poems;
Josephine Beach will give a mono
logue, and Mrs Phyllis Fergus Hoyt
of Chicago, national music chairman,
will be in charge of a musical pro-
gram. Other honored guests for the
breakfast include Chinese Ambassador
and Nine SEE and Mrs. Connor.
A reception at the White House,
prize play dealing with traffic problems
to which the District Commissioners
have been invited, announcements Of
various prize winners in different con-
tests conducted by the League, and the
election of officers are other high spots
on the full program. The White House
reception will be Friday at pm.
when Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
receive the delegates and members.
The traffic play, Hospital Ro-
nance" written by Eugenia Whyt Of
Oklahoma City, will be given Monday
evening, with Miss Tony Sorel and
John Mann, local amateurs, in the
leading roles. Miss Rose Cohen OF the
District is coaching the play, to be
given under the direction of the drama
department of which Mrs. Francesca
Falk Miller of Chicago is national
chairman
A great deal of interest centers in
the nomination of officers on Thurs
day and the balloting on Friday. The
two outstanding contestants for the
national presidency are Mrs. Phyllis
Fergus Hoyt of Chicago and New
Haven and Mrs. Clyde Robertson of
New York. The new officers will be
installed Saturday evening. recep-
ton will be rendered them.
Deutscher Literarischer Verein heard
a lecture on Die MinneSaenger" Ger
man troubadours) by Prof. Edward H.
Sehrt of George Washington Uni
versity. Fraulein Helga Schulz, daugh-
ter of the chancellor of the German
Embassy, recited poems by early poets
of the twelfth and thirteenth centu-
ries. Remembering the l04th ami
versary of the death of Goethe March
22), Ida Sboni Hanson gave read
ing of scenes from Faust" II part.
Anita Virginia Mueller, mezzo soprano,
sang songs by Marx and Meyer-Hel-
mund, two Volkslieder and an aria
from Mozart's Wedding of Figaro"
accompanied on the piano by Doro-
thy Andrews, who later on the pro-
gram played compositions by Schu-
mann, Schubert and Sibelius.
The Excelsior Literary Club met
with Mrs S. l. Dorsey, 1869 Columbia
road. The meeting was opened by
the second vice president. Mrs. c w.
Delaney. Mrs. Emily Jarboe sang, &C
companied at the piano by Mrs.
Dorsey. The president. Mrs. Matte
O. Ewing, later took charge of the
meeting. Mrs. c. B. Green gave a
paper on characteristics Of American
Spirit"
Members were requested to bring to
the meeting the subject they prefer
for next years study, and the date
on which they prefer to entertain the
club.
The next meeting will be April Z,
with Mrs. James Whitman, 28l0
Twenty-seventh street. Refreshments
were served by our hostess
The Executive Board Of the Writers
Club of the Y. w. C. A. met March
26 to further formulate organization
plans. The president, Miss Myrta E.
Cawood, presided. The constitution
and bylaws were presented by the
parliamentarian, Miss Virginia Diedel.
The following are officers: Presi-
dent, Myrta Ethel Cawood; first vice
president, Leah Stock Helmick; re-
cording secretary, Rae Robins; cor
responding secretary, Florence A. Die
terick; treasurer, Sara Fay Wait;
registrar, Ruby Crotinger; parlia-
mentarian, Virginia Diedel; chair
man of Membership Committee. Mary
Machin Gardner; chairman OF Pub
licity Committee, Maud Macdonald
Hutcheson.
The Capitol Hill History Club met
at the Kenesaw. Mrs. Byron Hunter
and Mrs. John A. Meyer entertained
for luncheon.
Mrs. Charles H. j. Miller and Mrs.
Percy A. Taylor were elected to mem
bership.
Three subjects were presented:
Mrs Blanche Austin, "Belgium's Re-
cent Sovereigns"; Mrs. John A. Meyer,
Hollands Colorful Costumes" and
Mrs William M. Collins, "Austria's
Problems"
Mrs. G. w. Freeburg, guest, show
ed some Dutch costumes.
The annual meeting for election Of
officers will be held April at the
Columbia Country Club.
Twentieth Century Club-Albert
W. Atwood, financial editor Of Every
Week and Associated Sunday Maga-
zine, will speak at the international
Outlook Section tomorrow at pm,
at the Y. w. c. A., on "Our Volatile
America" Current events will be
presented by Mrs. E. G. Montgomery.
The nature section trip is Wednes-
day. Members will meet at Cabin
John station at 1890 am.
Following the inspection by its
committee on Tuesday, the civics Sec