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Washington Post  Feb. 18. 1939.

Celebrities to Attend Stunt Party Of Women's Press Club March 3
Famed Lady Writers, Wives of Notables To Be Guests
Mrs. Roosevelt Heads List of Women To Be Honored

By Hope Ridings Miller,
The Post Society Editor.

Noted Names in art, science and official life will meet and mingle at the annual stunt party of the Women's National Press Club on Friday evening, March 3, in the grand ballroom of the Willard Hotel.
As in other years, the event this season, will draw women of accomplishment in creative fields and lady legislators, as well as wives of well-known Cabinet members, diplomats, justice of the Supreme Court and scores of social celebrities.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, an active member of the club, will also head the list of women to be honored at the party, which traditionally begins as a dinner and progresses into a series of stunts depicting the foibles, fads and fancies of political and social life.
JULIA PETERKIN, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, whose name is on the spine of several best-sellers, including "Scarlet Sister Mary," will come up from her home, Lang Syne Plantation, in Fort Motte, S.C., to attend the party.
Alice Duer Miller (Mrs. Henry Wise Miller), of New York, whose novels have attracted much attention for many years, has accepted the club's invitation; and Bess Streeter Aldrich, another widely, known novelist, also plans to be present.
NEYSA McMEIN, native of Illinois, who made her name and fame in New York as a magazine cover artist and illustrator, is on the list of notables planning to be there.
From the world of science will come Dr. Katherine B. Blodgett, who recently discovered "invisible glass."  Still others among guests to be honored are Cornelia Van A. Chapin, sculptor, who carves directly from life in stone, with no making of models before marble; and Katherine Garrison Chapin (Mrs. Francis Bidle), author of three books of verse and symphonic poem, "Lament for the Stolen," which attracted wide attention when it was presented in December by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Eugene Ormandy.

MRS. CORDELL HULL, wife of the Secretary of State, heads the list of Cabinet hostesses who have accepted the club's invitations.  Others in the group who will attend include Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr., wife of the Secretary of the Treasury; Mrs. Harry H. Woodring, wife of the Secretary of War; Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, wife of the Secretary of the Navy; Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife of the Secretary of the Interior, and Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture.
Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, wife of the Chief Justice, will represent the Supreme Court circle among the honor guests; and Mrs. William B. Bankhead, wife of the Speake of the House, is another who will add luster to the party.
LADY LINDSAY, wife of the British Ambassador, heads the group from the Diplomatic Corps, who will be there.  Others on list from that contingent are Countess van der Straton-Ponthoz, wife of the Belgian Ambassador; Mme. Ertegun, wife of the Turkish Ambassador; Senora de los Rios, wife of the Spanish Ambassador; Senora de Lopez, wife of the Ambassador of Columbia, and Mme. Maro Peter, wife of the dean of the Corps of foreign ministers.
Genevieve Forbes Herrick (Mrs. John O. Herrick), chairman of the press club's honor guest committee, has sent out invitations to the five women in Congress, and a number of other outstanding women.  Several wives of Supreme Court members, foreign Ministers, Senators and Representatives will be guests of individual members of the club, who are also inviting scores of social celebrities in Washington and elsewhere.
Mrs. Roosevelt will give an off-the-record speech following the stunts, and the evening will wind up with several supper parties given in private homes for members of the club and their guests.

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