Evening star., 1938-04-26
PLAN
CONCERT TONIGHT
Lecturers and Composers
in LimeIight at Willard
Banquet.

Delegates to the biennial conven.
ton Of the League of American Pen
Women, in session here now, won-
dered today which of five cities will
be chosen as the scene of the 1910
meeting-Chicago, Boston. Birming-
ham, San Francisco or Miami. Each
OF these places seeks the convention.
The winner probably will be an
nounced tomorrow.
Lecturers and composers will have
the limelight tonight at a banquet at
the Willard Hotel at $50 o'clock
Representative Ruth Webb O'Dell of
the Tennessee General Assembly will
speak on Women in Politics" and Os-
car L. Chapman, Assistant Secretary
OF the Interior. on The Territorial
and Island Possessions Of the United
States"
The composers concert, In honor of
Carris Jacobs Bond, with Elizabeth
Merz Butterfield, national music
chairman, presiding, will begin at
$40 pm. Composers whose works will
be performed are Iris Brussels, Eliza
beth Merz Butterfield, Bonita Grove,
Mary Howe, Katherin E. Lucke. Gail
Ridgeway Brown. Marion A. Dunn,
Buenta Carter, Mabel w. Daniels,
Grace Boles Hedge and Dorothy r..
Emery.
Awards to Be Made.
Awards, which will be made by Mrs.
Grace Seton Thompson. will include
the Mu Phi Epsilon Honorary Musical
Sorority awards in memory Of Persis
Heaton Trimble. the Edith Anisfield
Wolf award and the Josephine For
syth awards.
Assisting artists will be Florence
Howard. director; Myrtle Lindbeck,
Lille Garrett, Alice Sherrer and
Naomi NJ Thomas, contraltos; Eve
lyn Randall, Ruth Fernsler, Bessie
Warrington, Elizabeth Everett and
Frances Tucker, sopranos; Leila Burt.
Helen Belt and Margaret Merz Rich
ardson, violins; Cicely Brown, accom-
panist; Louis Potter. jr.. cello, and a
string quartet-Herman R. Hoffman,
Leo Krakow, Herman c. Rakemann
and Jean Kayalod.
Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson will
be hostess at tea in honor of Mrs.
Phyllis Fergus Hoyt, president of the
league, at 4 O'Clock at the headquar-
ters of the General Federation Of
Women's Clubs, 1884 N street NV.
Additional Awards.
Additional prize awards given last
night were: Radio. 15-minute play,
first prize. Hidden Treasure" Ona
Barroda of Hollywood, Calf; second
prize. Eta Gilbert, Pittsburgh, Pa;
third, Carmea L. Resting Of Kansas
City. Thirty-minute play, first, The
Prize" Elva c. Magnusson of Seattle.
Wash: second, Ona Barroda; third,
Carmea L. Resting. Fifteen-minute
article, Talk for Art Week." Laura
Grant, San Francisco; second, Eta
Gilbert of Pittsburgh; third. Irene j.
Crandall, Chicago. Number Of times
on the air. first. Mrs. Lulu Gabel
Giese; second. Grace w. Hit, San
Francisco: third, Winifred Long. St.
Petersburg, Fla. Honorable mention,
Harriet S. Bates, Daytona Beach.
Awards for articles of general in
terest were given as follows: First,
Mrs. Vivian w. Utley, Little Rock,
Ark; second, Mrs. Irene Darlington
Selby, Minneapolis; third, Mrs. Edyth
Sage Armstrong, San Francisco; hon.
orable mention, Mrs. Edith S. Arms
strong, San Francisco; Mrs. Grace H.
Sherwood, Catonsville, Nd; Miss
Beulah Charmley. Whitewater, Wis:
Miss Clara Bird Kopp. Mount Pleas
ant, Iowa; Miss Florence Alden Wilson,
Nashville. Tenn.
Article built around a scientific idea,
first. Mrs. Mary B. Hopkins, RAN
dolph, Wis; second, John Frances
Steele, Washington. D. c.; honorable
mentions, Mrs Leah S. Heinrich. Max.
well Field, Ala; Mrs. Pearl r. Casey,
Gunnison, Colo; Mrs. Grace H. Hea-
cock, Buffalo, N. Y; Mrs. Alma r.
Higbee. Kansas City, Mo-: Mrs. Flor.
ence c. Weed, Baltimore, Md.