Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28
RatiOned Menus
Will Be Served
At Friendship
Mrs. Mclean Gires
Meafless Dinner
To NewSac0meu
l o NeuSzCOWeu
Continued From Page DID

length to avoid being soiled or
stepped upon.
Mrs, Perry S. Heath appeared in
becoming full-length dress of light
blue crepe, and the director of the
mint, Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, who
travelled to the party by bus, wore a
blue velvet dinner gown. which she
pinned up under her fur coat.
Mrs. Julian E, Gillespie, Mrs. viii
Leonard Lowrie and Mrs. George
Mesta were among the newer asso-
clate members of the American
Newspaper Women's Club who were
at the party, Mrs. Gillespie arriving
by bus and wearing a very lovely
black dinner dress and Mrs. Lowrie
coming up from Alexandria and
wearing a Nile-green dress of fine
lace and a set Of Chinese jade.
Arriving by streetcar. Mrs. Ed
ward Everett Gam was very strik-
ing in gown of black velvet and
Mrs. Arthur H. Vandenberg also
wore black evening dress and
travelled by bus.
American Newspaper Women's Club
who does not let the matter of
transportation interfere with what
she wants to wear is Civil Service
Commissioner Lucille Foster Nc
Miliin, whose long black dress was
finished with a lace bodice and lace
trim, and Mrs Emil Hurja braved a
crowded bus in a becoming evening
gown of Chartreuse lace.
Mrs Robert Low Bacon, who had
to leave before the showing of the
motion picture to take up her war
Job as hostess at the Officers SerV-
ice Club dance, was among other
associate members of the American
Newspaper Women's Club at the
dinner, and also Representative
Edith Nourse Rogers, Mrs. Dwight F.
Davis, Mrs. Clarence Norton Good
win and Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe.
Several of the women writers for
South American newspapers who
are members Of the American News
paper Womens Club and now in
Washington were among the dinner
guests and added new note Of
distinction to this annual event.
One Of the outstanding guests in
this group was Sonora Stella De-
lores dc Monteiro, a distinguished
Brazilian newspaper woman. who
writes for an imposing string of her
counuys publications.
Senorita susanna Larguia repre-
scented Argentina in the group, her
work being with the "Poseidon' of
Buenos Aires. Mrs. Mary Spalding,
who is spending the week end here
from her home in New York, also
was among the guests. She is cor
respondent in this country for sew
eral Cuban papers.
Sonora Carmen B. de Lozada,
who is a Bolivian writer of note, was
one of the guests and also Senorita
Minerva Bernardino, who writes for
La Nacion," published in Cludad
Trujillo, Dominican Republic. All
of these women are members of the
Inter- American Commission OF
Women, as we'll as writer's, and
their active membership in the
ShllICllSdIl 4NCN SpbItI w olllSll SAto
is one of the numerous factors in
the larger conception of friendly
neighborllness.
Much the same procedure of all
parties at Friendship was followed
last night for the function for the
newspaper women. Mrs. Mclean
received in the drawing room and
standing with her were the presi-
dents of the two clubs, Miss Alice
Eversman of The Evening Star, of
the American Newspaper Womens |
Club, and Miss Christine Sadler, of |
the Washington Post, head of the |
other organization. Mrs. Cordell |
Hull, wife of the Secretary Of State |
and an associate member of Miss |
Eversman's club, was to have re-
ceived with Mrs. Mclean, but when
it became possible for the Secretary
to leave his duties she left with her
husband for a vacation in Florida
Spring flowers were used in great