Evening star., 1938-03-06
NEWSW0MEN RIB
NATIONS SFAMOUS
Mrs. Roosevelt Is Guest of
Honor as Notab|es Are
Lampooned.

d. Roosevelt. the honor guest, the
Women's National Press Club last
night at its annual night of mirth.
the feminine version Of the Gridiron
Club banquet, presented an elaborate
moving picture in production" star
ring Franklyn De Layno, billed as
'everybody's hero"
The show ribbed the administration
under the general title of Nice Work
If You Can Get 1t, or She Was Happy
Till She Met Him and Vice Versa
Before it was over there were satiriza-
tions of Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt, John
l.. Lewis, big business and little busi-
ness. political society in Washington,
the japanese emotional boycott. Elinor
Glyn, Dorothy Thompson, Mae West,
Minnie Mouse and Representative
Jenckes.
All stunts revolved around a movie
directors attempt to make De Layno
make love to Miss Iotta Business, a
glamorous girl in cloth of gold.
The public demands a love scene
between you two" the director yelled.
Attempt to Kiss.
The couple attempted to kiss. hold
ing their noses. then broke apart.
le pinched me in my undistributed
points" screamed Miss Business.
She said she didn't have any,"
retorted Mr. De Layno
The director, attempting to get Miss
Business to cooperate. declared:
You amt what you used to be.
Your box Office is terrible. Harry
Hopkins popped up your last show and
when he dropped out, what happened? :?
You receded. That's what you did.
You receded."
The couple finally got together in
the last scene. when the director gave
them boxing gloves and turned them
loose.
Choose Outstanding Women.
The clubs choices of the IL out
standing American women of the year,
headed by Mrs. Roosevelt. who closed
the evening by making a speech in
amusing rebuttal to the show. and in
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diplomatic corps, Congress and Gov
ernment agencies, the wives of Su-
preme Court justices and women
prominent in many fields attended
the banquet and show at the Willard
Hotel. Mrs. Roosevelt is a new men,
Der Of the club
The women selected as outstanding
included Mrs. Dwight Davis, chair
man of the committee which directs
Washington's Modern Art Museum:
Miss Mabel Boardman, secretary of
the American Red Cross; DR.. Annie
Goodrich, dean emeritus of the Yale
University School of Nursing; DR..
Florence Sabin, noted anatomist; Miss
Villa Roberts, editor of Woman's
Home Companion: Miss Theresa Hell
burn, member of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Theater Guild: Miss Helen
E. Hokinson, cartoonist for the New
Yorker: Dr. Maud Slye, director of
the cancer laboratory of the Sprague
Memorial Institute, University of Chi
cago; Elizabeth Halves, well-known
American designer; Mary Lewis, vice
president OF Best & Co., New York
City, and Miss Mary Mcbride, mag
azlne writer and radio broadcaster.
Cabinet Wives Present.
The cabinet wives present included
Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mrs. Henry Nor
eenthau. jr. Mrs. Harry H. Wood
ring. Mrs. Homer Cummings. Mrs.
Claude Swanson, Mrs. Henry A,
Wallace and Mrs. Daniel c. Roper.
From the diplomatic corps came
Mrs. Alexander Antonovich Troyanov-
sky. Mrs. HiroS Saito, Mrs. Fulvio de
Suvich and Mrs. Fernando de los Rios.
The women from Congress were SEN
ator Hattie Caravay, Democrat, of
Arkansas, and Representatives Edith
Nourse Rogers, Republican, of Massa-
chusetts: Mary T. Norton, Democrat,
OF New Jersey; Virginia Jenckes. Dem
ocrat, of Indiana; Caroline O'Day.
Democrat, of New York, and Nan
Wood Honeyman, Democrat, of
Oregon.
Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry entertained
at cocktail party before the banquet
and Eugene Meyer held a reception for
the women who attended the party
after the show.