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Social Notes
Of Nearby
Sections
Mrs. Boyle Delays
Departure Due
To Son’s Illness.
(Continued From Third Page.)
mones have sold their home at 2516
South Fern street. Aurora Hills, and
will spend the winter with Miss Saide
Field at her home on Prince street in
Alexandria.
Miss Beverly Ramsdell, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ramsdell of Tk
koma Park, D. C., entertained at a tea
Sunday afternoon. The table had for
its centerpiece a bowl of yellow and
rust chrysanthemums flanked with tall
yellow tapers in silver candlesticks.
Tea was poured by Miss Virginia
Bell and Miss Hope Griffith, while as
sisting in serving were Miss Juanita
Brown and Miss Helen Brown.
Among the guests were the Misses
Diana Buckler, Virginia Ashby, Jane
Ludt, Betty Reed, Rhoda Thompson,
Christine Pitcher, Joan Derrick, Mary
Burtner, Beverly Grier, Doris Patter
son and Gladys Welt.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Simpson of
Lyon Park have with them for a visit
Mr. Simpson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
William Simpson of Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Humphreys of
Washington have moved into their
new home at Georgia avenue and
Highland drive in Woodside Park, Md.
Miss Colliflower
Honored at Party.
Miss Mary Lou Colliflower, whose
marriage to Mr. Frank H. Grimes, jr.,
will take place Thanksgiving eve, was
the guest of honor at breakfast and
a miscellaneous shower at the Shore
ham Hotel Sunday morning.
The guests included Mrs. Margaret
A. Rice, Mrs. Lulu Richardson, Miss
Dorothy Parkhill, Mrs. Frank Basta
ble, Miss Lucy Fulwiler, Mrs. W. D.
Fitzgerald, Mrs. Louise Thomason,
Miss Jean Kreiger, Mrs. Joseph Boi
seau Miss Vera Romans. Mrs. William
Smith, Miss Helen Lavelle, Miss Ma
rion Goshorn. Mrs. Elva McKnew,
Miss Sarah Brissenden, Miss Mary
McDonnell, Miss Betty Peeples, Mrs.
Margaret Higdon, Miss Jean Lally,
Mrs. Mary Watson and Miss Gertrude
Colliflower.
D.A.R. Chapter Plans
Luncheon Saturday.
Mrs. Joseph A. Homer is chairman
of tire,committee for the luncheon to
be given by the Capt. Joseph Ma
gruaer Chapter, D. A. R., Saturday at
the home of the regent, Mrs. Arthur
S. Field, 3607 Lowell street. Others
assisting include Mrs. David D. Cald
well, Mrs. Frank R. Damron, Mrs.
Herbert R. Eck and Mrs. Herbert E.
Merwin.
The funds derived will be used for
the educational and historic projects
of the chapter. Following the lunch
eon Mrs. Anna Belle Stewart will tell
of her summer trip to Northern
Europe and Miss Lida B. Earhart will
give her impressions of Mexico.
Mrs. Dow s to Honor«
Mme. Bori.
Mme. Lucrezia Bori, who will be |
the soloist with the National Symphony
Orchestra, Dr. Hans Kindler, con
ductor, this evening, will be the guest
of honor at dinner tomorrow evening
of Mrs. Tracy Dows. Mrs. Dows, who
recently returned to the Capital from
a year’s absence, will entertain in her
Georgetown home, where Mme. Bori
will be her guest for a short time this
week. The concert tonight in Consti
tution Hall will be the first of the
midw-eek series for the symphony this
' season.
St. Monica’s League
Meeting Friday.
Mrs. Joseph Fletcher has issued a
general invitation to all of those in
terested to attend the meeting of St.
Monica’s League at the Cathedral Li
brary Friday morning at 11 o’clock,
when the VeryRev. Noble Powell will
•peak upon the work of the league.
Legal Fraternity
Will Give Tea
Sunday.
ALPHA LAMBDA CHAPTER, Phi
Delta Delta International Legal
Fraternity, will give a tea from 4 to 8
o'clock Sunday afternoon at the patio,
Carlton Hotel. The tea is held each
year by the chapter during the fall
term of school at National University
School of Law. The purpose is to in
troduce women students of the fresh
man class to members of the faculty
and prominent members of the fra
ternity. Guests will include Mrs.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, former
Assistant Attorney General and hon
orary president of the fraternity;
Judge Marion Harron of the United
States Board of Tax Appeals, Mrs. An
nabel Matthews, former judge, United
States Board of Tax Appeals and pres
ident of the Women’s Bar Association
of the District of Columbia; Judge Fay
Bentley of the Juvenile Court, Mrs.
Mary O’Toole, former judge of the
Municipal Court; Miss Pearl McCall,
former assistant district attorney;
Miss Stella Akin, special assistant to
the Attorney General; Miss Ann
O'Neill, assistant legal adviser. De
partment of State; Miss Helen Carloss,
special assistant to the Attorney Gen
eral; Mrs. Mary Connor Myers, Dr.
Jean Stephenson and Mrs. Mabel Ben
son Sakis.
Miss Edna Mae Miller, president of
Alpha Lambda Chapter, will head the
receiving line, assisted by the Misses
Cathrine Edmonson, Louise Chandler.
Elisabeth Connor Buchanan and Alice
Kieferle. In charge of arrangements
are the Misses Ruth Ellis, Sally Pres-'
ley, Florence McLouth and Irene
Wright. Miss Helene Finnacom, con
cert pianist and member of the Wash
ington Pianist Club, will entertain
with special arrangements of classical
selections.
Members of the faculty who have
been invited to attend include Senator
Ernest Gibson; the chancellor of the
university. Judge Charles Hatfield, and
Mrs. Hatfield; Dr, Charles Pergler,
dean of the Law School, and Mrs.
Pergler; Mr. Eugene Carusi, dean of
ixic sjwiiVAji ui DLcnuiiuca nuu uuvciu
ment. and Mrs. Carusi; Mr. John L.
Cassin, assistant dean of the Law
School; Mrs. H. C. Dapray, treasurer
of the university; Mrs. Charles F.
Carusi, Mr. Ugo Carusi, Prof, and
Mrs. Godfrey Munter, Prof, and Mrs.
George Edelin, Justice Fenton Booth,
Justice Finis Garrett, Justice Oscar
Luhring, Justice Jennings Bailey,
Justice Peyton Gordon, Justict James
Proctor, Justice Dickinson Letts,
Justice Nathan Cayton. Prof, and Mrs.
Walter Bastian, Prof, and Mrs. H. Win
ship Wheatley, Prof, and Mrs. George
Barse and Prof. Harry L. Walker.
St. Gertrude’s Guild
To Meet Friday.
A meeting of the St. Gertrude's
Guild to perfect plans for the guild's
annual bridge party, which will be
given in the continental room of Ward
man Park Hotel Monday, December 6,
will be held Friday morning at 10:30
o’clock at the home of Mrs. Joseph
Tumulty, 1901 Wyoming avenue. Mrs.
James Duke is chairman of the Bridge
Committee.
Proceeds of the bridge party go to
the St. Gertrude's School. Mrs. Robert
Whitney Imbrie is president of the
guild.
Mrs. Gillett-Hill Here
Mrs. Logan Gillett-Hill of New York
has joined her young son at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julian
Day at the Wardman Park Hotel. Mr.
Gillett-Hill spent the week end here
with his family. Mrs. Gillette-Hill
plans to remain here for a few weeks
while their new home is being com
pleted in Flower Hill, Manhasset, Long
Island.
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Candlelight Concert
Series Is Planned.
The sponsors of the candlelight
concerts of the Washington Chamber
Music Society will hold the first con
cert of the series at the Phillips Me
morial Gallery, 1600 Twenty-first
street, Monday, November 22. Others
will be held January 24, February 7
and February 28. _
The committee is made up entirely
of active members and .includes Mrs.
Minna Adams, Mrs. Robert Woods
Bliss, Mrs. Charles Adams Baker, Mrs.
Louis G. Caldwell, Mrs. Higgins
Chapin, Mrs. Morris Clark, Mrs.
Charles F. Darlington, jr.; Mrs. Jasper
Du Bose, Mrs. Herbert Feis, Mrs.
Edward R. Finkenstaedt, Mrs. Emory
Scott Land, Mrs. Walter Loucheim,
Mrs. Fernando Cuniberti, Mrs. Walter
Nash, Mrs. Donald Richberg, Mrs.
Higginson Rogers, Miss Elizabeth and
Miss Marion Shouse, Mrs. Jouett
Shouse, Mrs. Lawrence M. C. Smith,
Mrs. John M. Stemhagen, Mrs.
Elliott Thurston and Mrs. Francis S.
Whitten.
The first violinist this year is MS1
Frederick Dvonch. the new concert
meister of the National Symphony
Orchestra. Mr. Dvonch takes the
place of Mr. Bernard Robbins, now
permanently a member of the well
known Stradivarius Quartet of New
York. The second violinist is Mr.
Jeno Sevely, who has been a member
of the quartet since its beginning.
The viola will be played by Mr. Raipn
Hereh »nd the 'cello by Mr. William
Brennand. All members of the
quartet are members of the National
Symphony Orchestra.
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Mrs. White Hostess.
Mrs. William Henry White will en
tertain the members of the Presby
terian Home at a tea Friday afternoon
in her hotne on Park road.
Handcuffed to Bride.
When a detective was married at
Bo'ness, Scotland, recently, he was
handcuffed to the bride after the
ceremony, and it seemed a good joke
until it was learned f.he key had been
lost, and they had to remain linked
together for an hour until one could be
found.
Minnesota Society
And Alumni Dance
Saturday Night.
'J'HE Minnesota State Society and
University of Minnesota Alumni
Association will hold their annual
home-coming dance at the Broadmoor
Saturday from 9:30 to 1 o’clock. The
dance will be in celebration of the
some-coming game between Minnesota
and Northwestern.
The Minnesota football cocktail
hour will be held in the afternoon
at 2:30 o’clock at the La Fayette Hotel,
when the football game will be
heard over a national radio hook-up.
The dance at night will feature the
popular dancing-singing number, lead
by the orchestra and the society’s song
leader.
Mr. Donald W. Larson, president of.
the society, and Dr. Arthur G. Peter
son, president of the alumni associa
tion, extend a cordial invitation to
•all Minnesotans in Washington and
their friends to attend both the foot
ball party and the dance. A special
invitation is extended to North
westerners.
The Minnesota congressional dele
gation is expected to arrive in time
to attend the football party and the
dance.
The Reception Committee for the
dance includes: Mr. Donald H. De Vol,
chairman; Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Sarff,
Mr. George Selvig, Mr. Dick Jones,
Mrs. Olive Ericksen, Miss Grace Wis
nom, Mrs. Grace Merriam, Miss Henri
etta Dols, Miss Florence Wilson, Mr.
V. W. Lovejoy, Mr. Willis J. Lindquist,
Mr. and Mrs. William N. Morell, Miss
Adeline Kelly, Miss Norma Hanson,
Mr. John Croke and Miss Helene
Reibesteln.
The Floor Committee will be com
posed of Mr. M. Oliver Benson, chair
man; Miss Helen Check, Mr. E. B.
Brossard, Lt. Fred Lemmer, Mr.
Maurice Etzell, Mr. Benjamin Lee,
Miss Fern Swendiman, Miss Leone
Vouk, Miss Gail Eddy, Mr. Lorenlz
Wlgby and Miss Lillian Ingram.
Tickets for the dance will be avail
able at the door the night of the
dance. There will be no admission
charge for the football cocktail party.
North Dakotans Hold
Banquet Tonight.
Mr. Paul E. Shorb, president of the
North Dakota State Society, and mem
bers of his committees have completed
arrangements for the banquet to be
held at the Lafayette Hotel tonight
at 7 o’clock in honor of the North
Dakota Agricultural College football
team.
A program of short talks will be
given by Dr. John Lee Coulter, former
president of the State College; mem
bers of the North Dakota congres
sional delegation, and several of the
A. C. alumni now residing in Wash
ington. •
All North Dakotans are invited to
Join in welcoming the football squad
and to become acquainted with new
members who have recently arrived in
the city.
Officers assisting the president are
Miss Hazel Nielson, Mr. Arlo Melville,
Mrs. George H. Scannell and Miss
Marjorie Nye.
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Bowermans Honored
At Sunday Tea.
The staff of the Public Library en
tertained at a reception and tea in
honor of Dr. and Mrs. George F. Bow
erman in the palm room of the Wash
ington Hotel Sunday afternoon from
5 to 7 o’clock.
With Dr. and Mrs. Bowerman in
the receiving line were Miss Clara W.
Herbert, Miss Grace Finney, Miss Lou
ise P. Latimer and Miss Emma Hance.
Among the guests were Mr. Theodore
W. Noyes, Mr. and Mrs. Albert W.
Atwood, Dr. and Mrs. Philip Sidney
Smith, Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt
and Miss Julia Wright Merrill of Chi
cago. f
Catholic Group Founder Dies.
ST. LOUIS. Nov. 10 (JP).—Brother
John A. Waldron, S. M„ one of the
founders of the National Catholic
Educational Association, died yesterday
at St. Mary’s Hospital here. He was a
native of Cleveland, Ohio, and was 78
years old. Brother Waldron was a
member of the executive board of
the Educational Association until 1935.
Many Box Parties
Tonight at First
Midweek Symphony.
'J'HE Italian Ambassador and Donna
Matilde de Suvich will be guests
in the box of the former United States
Minister to Italy and Mrs. Lawrence
Townsend at the first of the series of
midweek concerts of the National Sym
phony Orchestra, Dr. Hans Kindler,
conductor. The concert, which will be
given this evening in Constitution Hall,
will be attended by many others promi
nent in society in Washington. Mme.
Lucrezia Bori, who is visiting Mrs.
Tracy Dows, will be the soloist. Others
who will be guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Townsend will be the former United
States Minister to Hungary and Uru
guay, Mr. U. Grant Smith, and Mme.
van Kaathoven.
The Swiss Minister and Mme. Peter
will be guests of Mrs. Kindler, wife
of the conductor, who also will have
with her -Mr. and Mrs. Corcoran
Thom.
Former Gov. David Sholtz of Florida
will be entertained in one of the boxes
and Col. and Mrs. Curt C. ShiSeler
will be hosts in their box.
Boxholders for the midweek series of
concerts of the National Symphony
also Include the Belgian Ambassador
and Countess van der Straten-Ronthoz,
the Japanese Ambassador and Mme.
Saito, the German Ambassador and
Frau Dieckhoff, the Ambassador of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
and Mme .Troyanovsky, the Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, the Advisor of
Political Affairs to the State Depart
ment and Mrs. James Clement Dunn,
Col. and Mrs. Edwin M. Watson. Mrs.
Beale Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh D. Auch
incl06s, Mrs. Tracy Dows, Mr. and
Mrs. Reeve Lewis, Mrs. Anne Arch
bold, Miss Alice J. Clapp, Miss Elea
nor Patterson, Mrs. Frederic A. Keep,
Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong, Mr .and
Mrs. L. Corrin Strong, Mr. and Mrs.
Christian Heurich, Mr. Edward Potter,
Mrs. Edwin B .Parker, Mrs. Charles
M. Lea, Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Tuck
erman, Mrs. Bancroft Davis, Col. and
Mrs. David S. Barry, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Bruce Howe, and Mrs. Ralph
Worthington.
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its bachelors buy chocolate twice a
week.
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