Evening star., 1937-03-14
Brennan to Be Speaker
At Women's City Club
Irish Free State Legation Secretary to
Be Guest at St. Patrick's Day
Dinner.
= OBERT BRENNAN. secretary
J of the Irish Free State Lega-
\ tion, will be the principal

- of the Irish Free State Lega-
ton, will be the principal
"A speaker at the st. Patrick's
day dinner of the Women's City Club,
Tuesday at $50. Other speakers will
be Martin j. O'Donoghue and Judge
Ellen K Ready. Robert Sheehan. BARI
tome Miss Airline Purcell, soprano;
Barney Fitzgerald, tenor, and Ambrose
Durkin. baritone, will sing. Mrs. Mary
Couch will be at the piano. Judge Mary
O'Toole will preside,
A tea will be given at the club to-
morrow at 80 pm. Mrs, Franceska
Kaspar Lawson will be presented by
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, the president.
Mrs. Mary liant Couch will present
the fourth Adventure in Music" on
Thursday at $50 pm. Folk Music"
will be the theme, Miss Beatrice Pinck-
ney Jones will be heard in a recital
of Mature and Good Nature in Mu-
sc"
At the Civics luncheon Saturday at
lis pm. Barrett Prettyman will dis
cuss the Jacobs report on fiscal rela-
tions and Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin
chairman of legislation of the League
OF Women Voters, will discuss Senate
bill to amend the present pure food
law
Mrs. Frank A. Birgfeld, chairman of
the House Committee, and Mrs. Edgar
T. Brown, chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, are sponsoring a
card party at the club on March 81.
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meet at All Souls Church, Tuesday.
at $50, Clarence E. Ruebsam presid-
ing.
Those on the program are as fol-
lows:
The Chariot Race" from Ben
Hur," read by William B. Crowell;
Emma Ware Anderson, selected Eliz-
abeth M. Phillips, The River of
Stars" by Alfred Noyes; Augusta
Mschen, The Box Office" by Elsie
Livermore, Song will be rendered by
guest artist One-act play, "A
Christmas Heroine" by Walter B.
Hare. The cast will be Elizabeth L.
sugbee and Garcia Bell Giovannoi.
The League of American Pen
Women announces Nellie Walker
Irish will be the hostess at the rem
devious in the studio. Grafton Hotel,
on st. Patrick's day, from 2 to s pm.
At 4;40 Mary Pickens Opie will sing
Irish songs. At s pm. the poetry
group will meet, Inez S. Taylor pre-
siding. Bring an original roundelet
for roll call Beth Heath Olmstead
r,t,r all
Mi in Poetry Writing"
Woodbridge Book Club-Under the
subject Something New" the stage,
television and aviation were dealt with
In the program Tuesday at the Wood
ridge Branch Public Library, with
Mrs, Charles Williams presiding and
Mrs. c. M Nef hostess.
Mrs. Samuel Hildebrand read Ernest
Crosby's poem, Life and Death"
Mrs. Clara Hitz reviewed Our Chang
ing Theater," by r. Dana Skinner:
Mrs. Lloyd Miller read a paper based
on Ronald F. Tillmans "Television
for the Home and North TO the
Orient" by Anne Lindbergh, was re-
viewed by Mrs. James Benfer. A brief
vi lIlt liz" DoOhS, clflDI dClllS
biography, fiction and poetry, was
given by Mrs. Paul Davis.
Mrs. John Byers and Mrs. Homer
McCann were elected to membership
The annual meeting and anniver-
sary luncheon will be held April 13
ut the Admiral.
The District of Columbia Society
Daughters of American Colonists, met
at the Sons of American Revolution
headquarters on Sixteenth street, with
Mrs. Frank Steele as hostess. The
state regent, Mrs. John Franklin Lit
te, presided.
Mrs. Harry C. Grove, chairman OF
nominations, presented the following
for officers: State regent, Mrs. David
d. CALDWELL first vice regent, Mrs.
William B. Sinnott; second vice re-
gent, Mrs. Roy C.. Bowker, third vice
regent, Mrs. Sol Lansburgh; chap
lain, Mrs. Elma Saul; recording sec
retary, Miss Jane B. Bassett. CORE
spending secretary, Mrs. Clarence Cur
tis; treasurer, Mrs. Grant F. Chase,
and historian, Miss Katherine H
Wootten
Mrs. John Ragan gave a piano re-
cital. Refreshments were served and
q social followed.
League Of Women Voters.-Capt.
Rhoda Milliken will speak before the
members of Mrs. John Allen H-organs
department of government and eco
nomic welfare on The Families of
Household Employees as Seen by a
Police Officer" at the Y. w. c. A. to-
morrow at IL am.
The child welfare department will
meet tomorrow at the Smorgasbord at
12l5 pm.
Woman's Auxiliary. Craftsm; IS
Club, Veterans Administration, will
meet Tuesday at the Thomas Circle
Club. 1926 Massachusetts avenue. Fol-
lowing the business meeting there will
be bingo party.
Phyllis LYMAN Colony, National
Society of New England Women, voted
to send a resolution to Congress and
to the White House, expressing strong
disapproval of the Presidents pro-
posed plan to reorganize the United
States Supreme Court. This action
was taken at the March luncheon at
the home of Mrs. Avery T. Drummer,
1923 Twenty-Second street northeast.
Mrs j. N. Luton and Miss Nina
Urner assisted the hostess Mrs. Otto
Hammerlund, vice president, presided.
Miss Mary Adele Brunner played
trumpet solos.
The colony will meet April 2, with
Mrs. r. G. Billiard, Mrs. F. O. Smith
And MISC Alica