The Washington times., 1937-04-28
BETA CHAPTER
PLANS SECOND
RUSH PARTY
BY MARY PADGETT
Women's Club Editor

Women's Club Editor
The second rush party of the
season of Beta Chapter, Phi
Delta Delta Womens Legal Soror-
itv. will be a dinner Saturday night
in the headquarters of the Ma
tional WomanS Party, 144 B
st. N. E.
Miss Florence Brill is chair
man of the committee arranging
the dinner. assisted by Bette
Renner. Virginia Wood, 10 May,
hall, @dith Spaulding, and
Frances King.
DISTINGUISHED members of the
sorority expected to be present
are Judge Mary O'Toole, Judge
Fav Bentley. Miss katherine Lou
Use Vaux, national officer of the
sorority, Miss Florence Curoe,
an adjudicator at the Veterans,
Administration, Ju d g e Annaoel
Matthews, and Miss Dorot n y
Long.
Invited guests who are Students
at the Washington College OF Law
are Miss Elizabeth NJ. ESpey. Miss
Mildred B. Fitch, Mrs. Lucille K.
FITZGERALD, Miss Elizabeth Freu-
denreich, Miss Margaret NJ Hell
miller, Miss Berniece-Jane Hicks
Miss Ruby H. Moss, Miss Ger
trude L. Poe, Miss Alice A.
Schlinger. Miss Elva j. Troxell,
Miss Helen M. Waters. Mrs. Lucie
Scott, Miss Elizabeth E. Benson,
Miss Edith v. Edwards, Miss Dor
othy Jackson, Mrs. Charlotte S.
Million and Miss Mildred F.
Thissell.
Mrs. Nadine Lane Gallagher,
president of Beta Chapter, Will
preside. The after-dinner program
will include talks by several OF
our honor guests, a Skit portray
ing a courtroom scene, under the
direction of Virginia Wood and
Katherine VauX: palm reading by
Miss Dorothy Long, card games
and music.
A gay afternoon at card playing
was spent yesterday by members
and friends of the League of Re
publican Women of the District OF
Columbia, when 100 women gath
cred at the Sulgrave Club for the
first social function under the new
president of the league, Madam
Julia Cantacuzene.
It was a benefit party for the
League, with Madam Cantacuzene
furnishing the ballroom and re
freshments and Mrs. Charles Lea
the various prizes.
Mary Ellen DaShiell, president
of the Story Tellers League, will
speak today at 4:30 p. m. before
members of the League Of Amer
ican Pen Women at their rem
devious from 2 to 6 p. m. in the
studio in the Hotel Grafton.
Minnie L. Briggs will be hostess
to the gathering.
The League will hear a lecture
by Miss Ann Darlington on an
cient and modern Greece, illus
trated by slides, Friday at BIS p
m. in the studio. Mrs. j. Frank
Rice will sing Greek folk songs in
costume.
A number of women attended
a buffet luncheon given today by
Mrs. Miller V. Parsons at Quan
tico, Va, where Captain Parsons
is now on duty.
Invited guests included mem
bers of Livingston Manor Chap
ter, D. A. R.; Mrs. Charles Car
roll Haig, State Regent of the
District; Mrs. T. Temple Hill
State Chaplain: Mrs. Earl Fuller
State corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Gary Walters and Mrs
George Middleton, all of Wash
ington; Mrs. Charles Lyman, Mrs
Gregory, Miss Peggy Gregory anC
Mrs. Tyler, all of Quantico; Mrs
Ford Young of Alta Vista, Md.
and Mrs. James Peabody, former
national officer and ex-State re-
gent of Massachusetts.
A color scheme of yellow anc
pink was used, with spring flow
ers. Mrs. Parsons was assisted a.
hostess by her daughter, Mrs.
Ford Evans Young, jr., and Mrs
j. F. Garland of Washington
Miss Peggy Gregory of Quantico
and Mrs. Ford Young OF Alta
Vista, Md.
After the luncheon there was {
short meeting. The Chaptel
Regent Miss Margaret Naylor, pre-
sided.
The annual institute of the Alex
andria-Arlington County W.C.T.U
will be held in the Clarendon Bap
tist Church, Wilson Boulevard
and Highland Street, tomorrow
beginning at 10 a. m. Mrs
Howard M. Hoge, of Lincoln, pres
ident of the -irginia W.C.T.U.
will pres =. The public is in
Vited.
Reports will be made from the
five local unions. There will bt
discussion of department work by
the following State and local di
rectors: Mrs. Frances M. Mabry
Christian citizenship; Mrs. E. B
Connerly, religious education; Mrs
Albert Hopes, soldiers and sail
ors, and Miss Sara Miller, Loya
Temperance Legion.
In the afternoon, Mrs. Amy C
Weech, of Washington, will give
a dramatic reading from the Bool
of Ruth. Devotional services will