Evening star., 1939-05-09
Winners Of Prizes
in Pen League
Contests Named
Popular Art Award
Given Mrs. Collision
For Child Portrait

Announcement of prize winners
and presentation of awards to men,
bers of the District branch of the
League of American Pen Women
who competed in number Of league
contests was the occasion of one of
the leagues largest gatherings of the
year last night at the Grafton Hotel.
The party is known as the Isabel
Anderson award party" as Mrs. LarZ
Anderson. herself writer, is the
donor of the largest number of prizes
offered during the year. Last nights
party was the 10Th annual affair
at which Mrs. Anderson has con-
tributed prizes for work in the crea-
tive arts and it was with genuine
regret that members learned her
absence from the city made it i'm
possible for her to attend.
Several donors of other awards
were present, however. and with the
winners and the judges were the
honor guests of the evening Mrs
Inez Sheldon Tyler. league presi-
dent, presided, assisted by Evelyn
Norcross Sheriff., first vice president.
in charge of special activities, and
Minnie L. Briggs. second vice presi-
dent in charge of creative arts.
Popular Award to Helen Collision.
The popular award, in the ISABEL
Anderson prizes in art, which is de-
termined by vote of the member
ship, went to Helen Collision for her
Child Portrait"
Mrs Anderson and Mrs. Tyler
tied for the Ruth Norcross HoXie
prize, awarded also on vote of the
membership, to the member who
best eXemplifies the league motto:
"All for one and one for all"
Helen Orr Watson, author of
"Chanco." received the Leona Pat
terson Tiller prize, offered to the
member publishing the outstanding
book of the year: honorable mention
went to June Rainsford Butler, for
''Floralia," and to Blanche Hum
phrey Abee, for "Colonists of Caro-
lima"
Marion Everett Hayn won the Bess
Heath Olmstead persistence prize
for the largest number of rejection
slips to her credit for the year.
Other Creative Arts Prizes.
Other Isabel Anderson prizes in
the creative arts were awarded as
follows:
Art, class l, oils-First prize,
"Snow Scene" Helen Collision; sec
ond, Basket of Flowers" Pherne
Miller; class 2. water color, first,
Still Life" Alma Winningham;
second, Landscape Florence Ever
hart; honorable mention. Mothers
Day Remembrance Eva Grant
Marshall.
Journalism-First prize, Jump
Right In Elizabeth Simons Tilton;
second, "Hoine Tooke, the Forgotten
Hero" Margaret Jean Bailey; first
honorable mention, stephen w.
kearney and the Southwest" Diana
Kearney Powell; second honorable
mention, Common Sense for Pub
lice Speakers Matte Richards
Tyler.
Poetry First prize, "Armor
<6dllAot AulullAl, IAdtIlCIulC nSll-
nedy Everett; second, Trees VIII
Understand" Matte Richards
Tyler; first honorable mention, Pill
grimage," Anna Priestly; second
honorable mention, Traveller"
Anne Darlington.
Short Story-First prize, The
White Organdy," Elizabeth Simons
Tilton; second, I'm a Second Story
Flat Nellie w. Irish; first honor
able mention, Flowers Come Alive"
Emma Vickery; second honorable
mention, "Corsage and a Tropic
Moon" Anne Bonner Marley.
Radio-First prize, Seven Fam
Gus Mothers Margaret Jean
Bailey; second, Birth and Growth
of the Nations Capital" J. Jeune
Carter; first honorable mention,
"Over the Gypsy Trail" Marie
Lomas Bockoven; second honorable
mention. Know Your Nations
Capital Irene S. Cohen.
Torchieres Presented.
Although the Clara Rosser Dennis
special prize was not given to a
member because of insufficient num-
ber of entries, Mrs. Dennis presented
the club with pair of electric
torchieres for the stage. The azalea
Green-Badgley contest for heraldric
design and the Frances Moon Butts
non-flction contest also had INSULT
cient entries.
Prizes ranged from $5 to SIS and
artistic award certificates made by
Mrs. Briggs also were received by
the winners. Chairmen of the de-
partments made the award.
Honor guests included Dr. Butts,
Mrs. Badgley, Mrs. Tiller and Mrs.
Hoxie.
1t was also announced Harriet
Disney will present the District
branch in the national lyric contest,
while Anna Priestley will compete
for the Ted Malone prize, given for
the best poem on "TOlerance. each