Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-07
Pen Women
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Feature
"Family Night"
Planned Monthly
On I'd Monday.
FRS. INEZ SHELDON Tyler

"A 4 RS INEZ SHELDON TYLER,
M recently elected president Of
wv the ID. c. branch Of the Ma
4 4 tional League of American
Pen Women, will introduce a new
program feature next season, which
she calls family night"
On the second Monday of each
month, all Of the members will meet
for dinner at the Grafton Hotel and
later 60 to the league studio. also in
the hotel. where program will be
given by one of the creative groups.
These will be outstanding social
events" Mrs. Tyler said, land will
give each group a chance to find out
what the others are doing"
The first Of these has already been
arranged It will be held on October
3. Joan Southwark will have charge
Of the program and Evelyn Sheriff.
will have charge Of the reservations
for the dinner.
The fellowship teas. the art teas,
the book reviews and the other pro-
gram events Of last year will be con-
tinued Mrs Leila Pier King, who was
chairman of the fellowship teas last
year. will continue in charge next year.
These teas will be held each Wednes-
day from to 6 o'clock in the studio.
Art teas will be given once q month.
and the exhibits of the artist men,
bers will remain continuously on the
walls Of the studio.
MIS-. Theodore Tillers book review
luncheons. which have proved so popu>
lar in the past, will be given monthly.
Group meetings will be held with
closed workshop" meetings alternat-
ing with feature programs, to which
the entire membership will be invited.
Most Of the Pen Women's affairs are
held in the studio at the. Grafton, a
large room that can be adapted to
various forms Of entertainment. 1t has
q stage at one end for plays, musical
programs and lectures.
The District of Columbia branch
has membership of 203, with several
applications to be taken up at the first
meeting. Nearly all of the crafts are
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and music groups have the fewest
members while the poetry, art and
journalism sections are the largest.
Seven former presidents of the ma
tional league are members Of the Dis
trict branch. They are: Theodore
Cunningham, Virginia King Frye,
Mabel Louise White, Edith bingham
Kern, Annie A. Wilder, Ada Orma
Du Puy and Victoria Faber Stevenson.
Several of the members have pro-
duced best sellers such as Mrs.
Royal Copeland's Guest Book" Helen
Orr Watson's "chanco" and Dr. Mary
Meek Atkeson Moore's Pioneering in
Agriculture
Among other members whose names
are well known are Isabel Anderson,
J. Juene Carter. Myrta Cawood, Rose
Chiles, Leila Pier King, Anne Marley,
Hilda Won Stockum Marlin and Evalyn
Walsh Mclean.
Mrs. Tyler has announced the fol-
lowing committee appointments for the
coming year: Committee on Commit
tees, Agnes Giles Newman; member
ship. Hattie Myers Junkin: publicity,
Elizabeth Tilton and Gladys Garraway
Smith: studio, Matte Richards Tyler
and ways and means, Azalea Green
Badgley.
The chairman of special activities
and creative groups are: Fellowship,
Leila Pier King; book review lunch
cons, Leona Patterson Tiller; recep-
ton. Claudia Rice Scott; sales. Myrta
Cawood; lectures and speakers bureau.
Maidy Campbell; motion pictures,
Harriet Hawkins Chambers and Oc-
tavia Sykes Stevenson.
The chairman of creative groups
are: Art, Ethel Davis and DR.. Florence
Everhardt; drama. Joan Southwark;
fiction, Helen Orr Watson and Ella
Lomas Bockoven; non-f1ction, Phron-
sic Marsh and DR.. Frances Moon
Butts: journalism, Anne Singleton
and Anne Manchester; music, Thora
Hinshaw Seaton and Bess Heath Ohm
stead; radio, Victoria Faber Steven
son: poetry, Alethea Anderson, Inez
Kirby and Anna Priestlev.