Evening star., 1941-04-02
Press Women's Skit
Puts Hairpins and
Glamour Into Defense
Feminine NotubIes
Are Guests at Clubs
Annual Stunt Party

responded to its countrys call last
night and with dumbells, tanks and
hula skirts for hula hostesses" did
its bit to prepare for prepared
ness"
In defense. skits which were the
overall theme of the clubs annual
stunt party last evening, members
struggled with muscle building eX-
ercises, proved their readiness to
wear uniforms and dungareeS with
high heels and flower-bedecked he'll
nets and repaired broken down
tanks-With hairpinS.
When the final act presented an
Army hostess in a hula dance, how
ever, the defense girls stared envi-
ously at first and then, putting
grass skirts over their uniforms and
dungareeS, abandoned mechanical
tasks for a more glamorous role in
the aid of their country.
Hairpin Tank Charges.
Patriotism can be an amazing
thing" commented Narrator Dor
othy Lewis, as tank, repaired by
Emily Davis hairpin, all but moved
down the girls as it charged of
the stage. The cast also included
Elizabeth Taylor. who took off her
helmet to comb her hair, and Ger
trude Chestnut and Dorothy How
erth, ready for the job to be done
with tanks.
The distinguished audience which
witnessed the satirical program also
saw President Roosevelt esther
van Wagner Tufty) leasing the
White House to China for the Great
Wall and announcing he intended
to gather Representative Hamilton
Fish MARY CottrelD and Mrs. Ben
nett Champ Clark, Mrs. Arthur
Vandenberg and Mrs. Burton K.
Wheeler, within its confines.
I'm going to put it around you
and isolate you, since that's what
you want" he told Representative
Fish at an informal supper party
which didn't take place at the White
House.
Murder" for Society Page.
In other acts the newspaper
women were benehciaries of a
fashion show and two haraSsed
society editors (Hope Rulings Miller
and Betty Hynes) killed a patroniz-
ing society columnist Celeste Page)
and then chanted happily because:
"At last we've got murder
On the gol-darned page"
Mrs. Roosevelt, member of the
club and one of the 500 guests pres
ent at the dinner party at the
Willard Hotel, enjoyed the frolicking
and then gave an off-the-record
talk to the group.
In the scene depicting the White
House supper party Mrs. Roosevelt,
played by Virgila Stephens, con-
stantly cautioned the President to
be nice to everybody when it de-
veloped that the guests were to
include such personalities as Repre-
sentative Fish, Alice Roosevelt
Longworth katherine Lewi0,
Wendell Willkie MARY HornsdaD,
Dorothy Thompson katharine
Smith and Gen. Hugh Johnson
Doris Fleeson). to say nothing OF
the King of Ptomania Virginia
Mannon) and Queen Clementina
(Jessie FAINT Evan0.
President Roosevelt had not rel
ished the company as it assembled
and told Mrs. Roosevelt that she
had the "damndest people at the
White House"
Now, Franklin" his wife replied,
soothingly, you know 1 had all the
ROYALTIES you like, and, besides,
Ham is our Congressman"
Spoons Go for Islands.
The party got off to an interest
tng start when Mrs. Roosevelt dis
covered that most of the spoons
were gone. (The President had
swapped them for an island. Then
Mrs, Longworth observed that the
gold piano was missing from the
east room. (Her cousin had given
At to Russia to keep Stain happy)
When the President also made
the occasion one for announce
ment of another important trans
action-leasing the Washington
Monument to Greece in exchange
for the crown jewels, Mr.. Willk1e
interrupted somewhat contemptu-
ously with: IT got bigger ones from
the Du Points"
Peace, it's wonderful" the Pres
ident exclaimed in the midst of the
confusion.
After a call for unity" from Wen
dell Wilkie, however, harmony OF
sorts was achieved when the COM
pany held hands and sang to-
gether, with Mrs. Roosevelt, Dorothy
. Thompson and Willkie adding:
'Do what Franklin tells you to do,
Him be the captain and you be
: the crew.
And get unitee."
Styles for Covering Fashions.
IN the fashion show for the
benefit of newspaperwomen, the
dressy socialite (Malvina Lindsay,
who Ought to be in Nassau right
this minute-my doctor says" ex-
planned that proceeds would buy
ermine jackets and rhinestone
tiarras for the feminine scribes so
that they may properly cover our
benefit fashion events"
. Miss GlitterflaSh Dab Lincoln)
! was the professional fashionist
down from New York" who gra-
eiously conceded that washington
. women are quite smartly dressed
at times
Special admiration went to a
back to fundamentals number"-a
one-piece corset, hat and veil
presented for Republican ladies who
can no longer wear Willkie buttons
to distinguish them from the COM
mon herd" This "sculptured sill
. houette" was modelled by Corinne
Frazier
Hemisphere solidarity was repre-
sented when Latin American
sorceress ruth Cowan) wiggled in
wearing a Carmen Miranda red
taffeta, beruffed shirt, slit to the
waist and revealing long gray woolen
underwear.
The Same for Variety.