Evening star., 1936-06-14

ces Mann, recording secretary, and |
Lucetta Stockbridge and Alice Web
ster, directors.
The Cercle des Preci0uses Ridicules |
closed its meetings Saturday evening |
with its annual fete champetre in the |
gardens of M. and Nine. Pierre de |
Chauny near Falls Church, Va.
The second act of Edmond Rostand's |
Lies Romanesques," three-act drama |
in verse. was played in the appro- |
pirate sylvan setting. A summary of |
the entire play was read by Nine. |
William j. Wallis. The actors were |
NJ and Nine. Jean Hastings, Nine. |
Camille Hindmarsh, Nine. Manuel |
Cambouri, M. William j. Wallis, M. |
Pierre de Chauny and DR.. Richard L.
de SauSsure.
The minuet was danced on the lawn |
by Mile. Virginia Ronsaville, Mile
Patricia Hunt, Nine. Manuel Cam
bouri, Mile. Marise Cambouri, Mile |
Jacqueline Kitchen, Mile. Margaret |
Morrison-Smith, Mile. Hazel Priest |
and Mile. Rosa Folau. The piano &C
compartment was played by Nine.
William j. Wallis.
Curley Club.-Election OF officers
will be held at the second meeting in
June. They will be installed at the
first meeting in July.
The baseball teams meet Monday
evenings at the Anacostia diamonds.
Thomas Brennan was admitted as
new member at the last meeting.
About so members of the club were
the guests of John Townshend at his
Summer home at North Beach last
Sunday.
The Chronicle Committee met at
the home Of Miss Mary Connolly last
week.
Woodbridge Book CIub.-The pro-
gram was devoted to late fiction last
Tuesday at the Woodbridge Branch
Public Library.
Mrs. T. E. Mattingly, who was also
hostess, read paper, Fiction Over
the Decade" Mrs. David Thompson
reviewed George Santa Yana's The
Last Puritan" and The Exile" by
Pearl Buck, was reviewed by Mrs j.
H. Ledger. Mrs. C. r. Speaker read
paper, Our Poets Of the Past Dec
| ade
Mrs. Samuel F. Hildebrand presided
| at the meeting which followed the
program.
Mrs. Paul Davis gave a brief sum-
mary of Great Wide Beautiful
VI -1I
Mary Roberts Rinehart's THE Doc
tor" and recommended the reading
of Honey in the Horn," by H. L.
Davis, the Pulitzer prize winner.
Mrs. Nathan Cannon and Mrs. Lee
Greek were elected to membership.
A book was awarded Mrs. Jesse NJ
Luton, whose History of Woodbridge
and Vicinity" was adjudged the best
paper of the year. Mrs. Waldo Stew
ems paper, History of the Woodbridge
Book Club" and Mrs. Charles Gooch's
Russia in Literature" received hon.
orable mention.
The Council of Jewish Women Is |
inaugurating a series Of luncheons to |
be held until October to raise funds |
for its years work.
The council was host Saturday night |
at Collier Inn at dinner to the fac
ulty Of Council Sunday Schools and |
the volunteer workers of Council |
House, southwest. Mrs. Milton c. !
Dunn, chairman of the Council House |
Committee, introduced Mrs. D. j.
Kaufman, who with her husband pre-
sented the Juanita K. Nye House to |
the work in memory of their daughter. !
Mrs. Gertrude Cohen, director of |
Council House, introduced the work.
ers and told of their achievements. |
Mrs. Leo A. Diamond, chairman of |
Sunday schools of the council, did |
the same for the faculty of the schools. |
She also introduced Mrs. Carl Linker,
who is succeeding her in the chair
manship. Mrs. Louis A. Gutenberg,
newly-elected president, spoke.
A skit written by Jerome Gunder-
sheimer was presented with cast that
included Betty Crowell, Bella
Schwartz, Sophie Fischer, Rose Lewis
and Clara Berenter.
Voteless District League of Women
Voters-Mrs. William Kittle, president,
entertained with tea for the execu-
tive board at her home on Military
road on June 8.
The new members Of the board are
Miss Rhoda Milliken, first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Harold Krogh, recording
secretary; Mrs. Caroline O'Day, di-
rector; Mrs Charles Weston, chair
man of government and its operation:
Mrs. Francis Goodell, chairman of
government and child welfare; Mrs.
and the legal status of women: Mrs.
Eugene Duffield, finance chairman;
Mrs. Wendell Lund, arrangements
chairman; Mrs. Ralph E. Smith, hos
pitality chairman; Mrs. Beatrice Dun
can, Mrs. j. G. Mackenzie and Mrs.
Robert Leonard, representing the
league on committees of the Washing
ton Council of Social Agencies; Mrs.
Stanley Reed, Mrs. Lester Buchanan,
Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman and Mrs. w.
S. Ufford, members of special legisla-
tive committees.
Mrs. Kittle announced the execu-
tive board Of the Baltimore League
had accepted an invitation from the
executive board of the District League
to attend a joint luncheon meeting
here on November 20.
Mrs. Bernard Hearn, chairman of
the Committee on Student Member
ship, reported an outline Of course
of study on practical problems in citi-
zenship, which is to be given by the
departments of the District League
in the Junior College of the Mount
Vernon Seminary during the next
year.
Lincoln Woman's Relief Corps viii
have a cootie party next Wednesday
at pm. at l414.C street northeast.
Women's City Club.-Miss Juliet
Searle gave a breakfast to Mrs. Hos
ford and Mrs. H. Bolton June 6 as q
farewell on the eve of their European