Evening star., 1937-05-02
News of Local Clubs

will pour at the tea and Mrs.
Russell Shelk, Mrs. Harold Craft,
Mrs. Vincent du Vigneaud and Miss
Ellen Cato will act as hostesses for
the afternoon.
The business meeting will follow and
be presided over by the president, Miss
Harriet Garres. Selection Of officers
will be held.
The League Of American Pen Women
announces on Tuesday at 8 pm. the
radio group will meet at the Hotel
Grafton, under the direction Of Alice
Hutchins Drake. DR.. H. Warfel Of the
University Of Maryland will speak on
Trials and Tribulations Of Biog-
rapher"; Mrs. Helen Turley, contralto,
will sing. and Miss Ann Sugar. pianist,
will play. Members are invited to
bring guests.
A vote will be taken for the popular
prize award the same evening to a
picture entered in the Isabel Anderson
contest.
On Wednesday, rendezvous from 2
to 6 pm. Azalea Green Badgeley,
hostess. Program at 4:30.
Special fiction program Saturday at
pm. Mrs. H. Lyle Campbell, presi-
dent of the Story Tellers' League of
st. Louis, will speak on "Story Telling
Through the Ages" Following musi-
cal selections there will be q
dramatized short story, "The Painter
of Plates-a Chinese Fantasy" writ
ten and produced by Blanche Morgan
Foote. Many outstanding writers will
be the guests of honor Guest priv
ileges.
The Alpha Chapter Of the World
Caravan Guild will meet at the
Raleigh Hotel Tuesday at 8 pm
THE Indians and Eskimos of
Alaska" will be the subject of talk
by DR.. Paul w. Gordon. supervisor
OF Alaskan Affairs, Department of the
Interior. Prof. A. Curtis Wilgus of
George Washington University will
preside as director.
The Jewish Women's Unit Of the
District Chapter Of the American Red
Cross will give tea May from to
at the Roosevelt Hotel to celebrate
its tenth anniversary. Invitations
have been extended to Miss Mabel T.
Boardman, chairman of Volunteer
Services and to all members of the
staff OF the District Chapter. Any
interested volunteer worker is invited
Mrs. Joseph Solomon is chairman.
Votless District of Columbia League
OF Women Voters-Mrs. Edith Valet
Cook, national chairman of the de-
partment of government and the legal
status OF women of the League OF
Women Voters, and former member
OF the Connecticut State Legislature:
Miss Mary Anderson, chief of the
United States Womens Bureau, and
Representative Robert Ramspeck OF
Georgia, will speak before an open
dinner meeting. The subject will be
Married Women and Their Jobs. "
The meeting will be held at the club
house of the American Association OF
University Women, 1884 Eye street
May S at $50 pm.
Mrs. R. G. Wagenet, member of the
District Leagues Board of Directors
will act as chairman Of the dinner
meeting of the National League OF
Women Voters on THE American
System" which is to be held at the
Hotel Washington, May a. Among
those assisting will be Miss Belle Sher-
win, Mrs. Harris Baldwin, Miss Edith
lockwood, Mrs. Elwood Street, Mrs.
Gardner Jackson and Mrs. A. J. Alt
meyer.
The Department Of Government
and Child Welfare is studying recent
congressional proposals concerning the
District Fairgrounds and the receiving
home for children.
A resolution passed at the April
meeting of the Board of Directors
provides that the Housing Committee
endorse the Wagner-Steagall bill Is.
1885 provided that financial pro-
visions for reclamation are clearly de-
fined.
Zonta Club-Miss S. Winifred Bur-
well, trust officer Of the National
Metropolitan Bank, was elected pres
ident at the annual meeting held
Wednesday at the Dodge Hotel Other
officers elected were: Miss Anna Mud
diman, vice president; Mrs. Elizabeth
Cox, Miss Elizabeth Beresford, Mrs.
Anna Harding and Miss Ruth Sheldon,
directors
Miss Ruth Sheldon, delegate, and
DR.. Frances Marshall, alternate,
to the conference recently held in
Toronto, made a report. A gift of
appreciation to the retiring president,
Miss Mabel F. Strider, was presented
by membership.
Miss Vera Lundquist of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, was
welcomed as new member. Miss Cora
Mckenzie. former president OF Zonta
International, and a member of the
Cambridge Mas Clllh WAX a o1lest