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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1935 Mid-Season Parties Vary Greek Letter Clubs Announce Dance Dates News of Women's Clubs Business Women's Club The Business Women's Club of the Bedford Presbyterian Church will hold its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, Following dinner, which be served at 6:45, Dr. Stanley Pallister will give an illustrated lecture on "A Trip to Russia and Constantinople in the Summer of 1931." Miss Astrid Johnson, pianist, will play Russian music. Women Voters Brooklyn 18th A. D. of the New Yorks League of Women Voters will have a demonstrated luncheon at the M.

E. Church, Glenwood Road and E. 31st tomorrow. The speakers will be Mrs. R.

T. Oliver, finance, borough chairman, chairman. and Mrs. This will B. be the first of four meetings in January for obtaining new members and raising the budget.

Conference Thursday Representatives of 250 women's organizations in Brooklyn and Long are being invited to conference meeting with Mrs. William Dick Sporborg, chairman of the Consumers' Council of the International Trade Fair, on Thursday at 11 o'clock in the Hotel St. George. Mrs. Charles A.

president of the Long Island of WomPederatione en's Clubs, is calling the meeting, at which plans for participation in a benefit, which is citywide in its scope, will be discussed. Brooklyn organizations co-operating at the present time with the Consumers' Council of the fair, on which women prominent in civic, social service and club activities are serving, include Brooklyn Catholic Big Sisters, the Child Guidance Clinic, the Brooklyn Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, the Brooklyn Welcome Home for Girls, the Child Welfare League, the Crown Heights Auxiliary of the Jewish a Home for Incurables, the Froebel Society, the Industrial Home for the Blind, the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Congregation of Mt. Sinai, the Mothers' Club of Public School 186, Theater Club, the Tillie Memorial Free Burial Society, the Washington Heights Woman's Club, the Women Optometrists of Greater New York, Samaritan Temple, 139 Pythian and others. Clubs participating in the advance sale of tickets for the International Trade Fair will receive the entire proceeds in one of the largest benefit projects ever held in Greater New York. The first visual demonstration of perishable distribution prepared the public by the Department of Markets of the City of New York will be a feature of the International Trade Fair.

This exhibit, which will demonstrate the improved methods of food distribution in Greater New York by the Department of Markets, will be under the personal distribution of Mrs. Frances Foley Gannon, Commissioner of Markets. A model of the Wallabout Market in Brooklyn will be included in the exhibits, as well as that of the Bronx Terminal Market. At Thursday's meeting a steering committee will be formed of women from Brooklyn and other sections of Long Island. Missionary Union The regular meeting of the Woman's Baptist Missionary Union of Long Island and the Woman's Auxiliary to the Baptist Church Extension Society of Brooklyn and Queens will be held at Emmanuel Baptist Church on Tuesday.

The Rev. Marvin Emerson of the Public Health Department, of Columbia University A. E. Bigelow of the Philippines will be the principal speakers. Vanderveer Park Mother's The Vanderveer Park Mothers Association, Mrs.

John P. Prial president, made their annual visit on Sunday to Farm Colony Hospital, Staten Island, to distribute Christmas gifts to the chronic men and women patients. They also distributed Christmas baskets to the needy families of the convalescent patients of Kings County Hospital. The regular meeting will held on Friday evening at 8:15 p.m. at the home of Mrs.

Alice Jones, 4012 Glenwood Road. After a speech there will be a musicale and refreshments will be served. Browning Society The New York Browning Society, Mrs. Sturges S. Dunham.

president, will hold its regular meeting on Wednesday, at 2:45 p.m., at the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan. The subject will be "Poetry and Religion in a Changing World," and the speaker will be the Rev. Dr. Lynn Harold Hough, The chairman of day will be Mrs. W.

B. Donnell. Miss Marion Hutcheson's engagement to Hallock Cowles Campbell of 359 Stuyvesant Are. is announced by her parents, Mr. end Mrs.

Allen C. Hutchinson of East Orange, N. J. (Photo by Kingent). Pennsylvania Daughters The Daughters of Pennsylvania in New York, Mrs.

Walter Seaman Comly, president, will meet Tuesday, in the Hotel McAlpin, Manhattan, at 2 p.m., for the business meeting. The program on "Mementos" will begin at 3 p.m. with Mrs. M. A.

Bence as chairman of the day. There will be East Indian dances in costumes, including the famous Nautch Dance, by Miss Genevieve Sweeny, with Miss Lily Andujar as pianist. Mrs. Bence will give an illustrated talk, the decorations will be loaned through the courtesy of Mrs. Edith Igoe Sweeny.

Mrs. Alexander O. Uhlitz is chairman of program. Labor Frances Perkins, Secretary, of Commerce Daniel C. Roper Senator Gerald P.

Nye of North Dakota are among the nationally known figures who will address club women assembling this week in Washington for annual mid-Winter meeting of the board of directors of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Jan. 16-19, the president, Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, presiding over all sessions. Theater Club The Theater Club, will meet at the Hotel Astor, Manhattan, on Tuesday at 2 o'clock with the president, Mrs. Wallace S.

Stewart. of Brooklyn, presiding. The play for discussion will be "The Children's with Mrs. Katherine Hancock, chairman. Those taking part in the discussion will be Mrs.

Margaret Wentworth, Mrs. John E. King, Mrs. Arthur B. Conner, Mrs.

Robert Ginsberg. and Mrs. Belle Harlam. After the meeting there will be a party at the Actors Dinner Club at the Hotel Woodstock, Manhattan. Carroll Club The Carroll Club will have its third literary tea tomorrow afternoon, the guest of honor being Shane Leslie.

Mr. Leslie will give an informal talk and will read some of Francis Thompson's poetry, Mrs. William F. Cogswell, Mrs. John S.

Reilly, and Mrs. Christopher Wyatt will be at the tea table. Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady, the president will be present to receive the members and their guests.

Mr. Leslie, who has just arrived from London and is on his way to the University of Notre Dame, is now staying with Mrs. Bourke Cochrane. Far Rockaway Women's An interesting and diversified program is planned for the month of January by the Far Rockaway Women's Club of which Mrs. Clarence M.

Burdick is president. On Tuesday the club will hold the third in a series of four bridges at the Parish House, Foam Place, Far Rockaway. Mrs. John E. Crawford chairman of the tea that will follow and Mrs.

James Fox is hostess. The regular business meeting of the club will take place on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 15 when delegates to the Convention of the New York City Federation of Women's Club to be held on Feb. 1 at the Hotel Astor will be chosen. The Garden Group of the club will hold its second annual country fair at the Parish House on Wednesday evening, Jan.

16. Members will wear costumes typical of the setting and teir will be entertanment and dancing. All sorts of foodstuffs and handicraft articles will be sold at booths. Mrs. Jenneth Chave heads the committee in charge.

The choral group of the club will hold its annual rainbow luncheon on Tuesday, Jan. 22, from 12 to 2 the program meeting. Mrs. A. J.

p.m., at the parish house, preceding Fischer of Canton, China, will talk on "Chinese Impressions." Mrs. Victor De Groot is luncheon chairman; Mrs. G. M. Sauerwin, general chairman, and Mrs.

Charles Chaffer, hostess. The month's activities will be culminated on Tuesday evening, Jan. 29, at 8 o'clock with the annual guest night celebration. Mrs. Smith N.

Durland the committee in charge. Mrs. Mabel Teitlebaum will be the guest of the Malverne Mothers Club Tuesday afternoon. She will address the group on "The School Library and the School Radio." Lawrence A. Dr.

Charles Tillinghast, headmaster of Horace Mann School, will be the guest speaker Tuesday evening before members of the ParentTeacher Association of the Lawrence Grammar School. The meeting will take place in the auditorium of the school. His topic will be "The Place of the Elementary School in the Educational Scheme." Comoedia Matinee The Comoedia Matinee Club, of which Mrs. Edward B. Dickinson and Mrs.

William E. Hill are copresidents, held 1 its January luncheon at the Hotel Astor recently. Eddie Garr and Rose King of "Thumbs Up" cast and Peggy Wood playing in "Birthday" were guests of honor. Following the luncheon the club members attended a performance of "Piper Paid" at the Ritz Theater. Tomorrow Mrs.

Adele Adams, Mrs. I. Brennan and Mrs. Michael G. Meyer will entertain the presidents and board of council at luncheon at Hotel Astor.

P. S. 144 P. A. An evening meeting of the Parents Association of P.

S. 144, Forest Hills, will be held Wednesday. A discussion of the Child Labor Amendment will be held. P. S.

93 A. The regular monthly meeting of the Parents-Teachers Association of P. S. 93 will be held in the school auditorium, New York Ave. and Herkimer on Thursday at 2:30.

After the meeting there will be a performance by David Belmont, magician. ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lowenstein of 1457 E. 27th St.

will celebrate their 33d wedding anniversary today. They will be entertained at a dinner and bridge by their niece, Mrs. Paul Levy of 1058 Carroll St, -GALLAGHER Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Marie G. Carroll to Dr. Frank Bennett Gallagher of Metuchen, N.

son of Mrs. Florence Gallagher and the late New York State Senator Frank Gallagher. The engagement was made known by Mr. and Mrs. Martin J.

Carroll at a bridge and tea given at their home, 595 7th yesterday. Miss Carroll is a graduate of Georgian Court College, Lakewood, N. J. Dr. Gallagher attended Rutgers University and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

He is practicing dentistry in New York City. Those present included the Misses Florence Ward, Jean Devine, Regina Peppard, Hilda McCartney, Anne Gallagher, Betty Gallagher, Margaret Gallagher, Mrs. Helen P. Saxton, Mrs. Frederick Stecker, Mrs.

Edmund P. Hourigan, Mrs. Raymond James McIsaac, Mrs. Leo Gaffeney, Mrs. John Siefkin, Mrs.

Harry Thornton, Mrs. Gerald Raftery, Mrs. Eugene Canavan, Mrs. Edmund J. Carroll, Mrs.

John M. Carroll, Mrs. Basil Gallagher and Mrs. Florence Gallagher. MANNIX-GORRELL The marriage of Miss Editta Mercedes Gorrell, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Henry H. Gorrell of La Maresca de los Andes, Cayambe, Ecuador, to John W. Mannix of Guayaquil, nephew of Miss Delia Mannix of 304 Court took place at Cayambe on Friday, Dec. 21.

The bridegroom recently resided in Brooklyn, while Mrs. Mannix was a resident of Kansas City. The couple made their wedding trip by horse, trail, motor and railroad to the coast, where they barked for a cruise to Peru. On emtheir return they will reside in Guayaquil, Ecuador. New Year's Eve celebration was held at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. A. N. Felder of 2328 83d St. The program was arranged by S.

M. Salmanson, president of the Brooklyn Civic Association, who was mas- ceremony. PARRY-STANESLOW Mr. and Mrs. William H.

Parry of 21 Crocus Floral Park, anthe engagement of their daughter, Miss Catherine Adele Parry, to Bernard J. Staneslow of Niagara Falls, N. Y. Miss Parry is a graduate of Keuka College and Genseo Normal School. Mr.

Staneslow is a graduate of Cornell University and received his M.Chem. degree in June, 1933. He connected with the Moore Research and Service Corporation of Niagara Falls and Toronto, Canada. PARTY PLANS MADE a candlelight tea at her home Mrs. John Duncan Laurie, president of the Altar Society of the Church of Our Lady of Refuge, of 789 Kenmore Place, recently entertained her officers chairman of committees.

Plans were made for the annual bridge, tea and fashion show, which will be held at the Hotel Plaza, Manhattan, on Saturday, Feb. 2. DELTA DELTA DELTA The Brooklyn Alliance of Delta Delta Delta held its regular monthly supper on Thursday evening. The president, Susan D. Hay, presided.

The annual Adelphi College Alumnae Association bridge will be held Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Brooklyn Edison Building, On Saturday afternoon, Jan. 19, the Alliance group will have a theater, party to see "The Farmer Wife." GIRL SCOUT TEA Mrs. Percy R. Gray, chairman of the finance committee of the lyn Council of Girl Scouts, will entertain the Girl Scout district chairmen and members of the council at tea at her home, 12.

Clark on Jan. 14. The guests will discuss plans to organize a working committee for starting a $1 contribution drive for the benefit of the Brooklyn Girl Scouts. CABARET AND BALL The Order of Seville Castle, No. 1, Knights of Columbus, will hold their tenth annual cabaret and ball on Saturday at the Commodore, Manhattan.

The proceeds of this affair yearly go to the benefit of sick and disabled members. Frank D. Seinsoth has charge of the entertainment. Georgie Sturgis, 11-year-old singer; Rita Rosa Delaney, in an Irish skit; Arthur Leslie, baritone singer, and radio stars will appear. Roy Fagan is chairman and Joseph Grimm has charge of arrangements.

MISS REIF HOSTESS Miss Lillian D. Reiff of 208-01 100th Bellaire, entertained the following guests at a Christmas party at her home recently: the Misses Mary Higgins, Gertrude Flood, Florence Chilton, Grace Sullivan, Margaret Bessler and Lee Marvin; also Charles Koon, Joseph Jahl, William Higgins, William Peterson, George Higgins, Ralph Oehler and John J. Sullivan. Miss Grace Sullivan played the piano-accordion and piano, and refreshments were served later. McCANN-MAHER Mrs.

Ann McCann of 619 61st St. announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Ann McCann, to John F. Maher, son of Mrs. John Maher of 1252 Sterling Place. OFFICERS ELECTED The officers of the Kent AthleticSocial Club for 1935 were elected at a recent club dinner held in the home of Vincent D.

McKeon, president, at 666 E. 43d St. All the officers for the past year were re-elected. They are as follows: Vincent D. McKeon, president; Jerome secretary; John Martin, treasurer; Leonard McCarthy, sergeant-at-arms.

The athletic captains are George Marsh, baseball captain, and Leonard McCarthy and George Marsh, football co-captains. FENWICK-REA Mr. and Mrs. George F. Fenwick of 255 76th St.

announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Margaret Fenwick, to John Andrew Rea of Elizabeth, N. son of Mr. and Mrs. George Rea of Brooklyn. Phi Alpha Sigma fraternity will meet at the home of Charles G.

Jones, 8500 4th on Jan, 17 Greek Letter Clubs Woman's Press Club The Woman's Press Club of New York City, Mrs. Harriet Bishop Waters Christie president, will meet Saturday at Hotel Pennsylvania, Manhattan. At the close of the business session the program will be given by Mrs. Eva Phipps. "A Review of Current Plays" is the subject of her talk.

Century Theater Club The Century Theater Club, Mrs. Albert Leon Page president, will have meeting at Hotel "Commodore, Manhattan, on Friday, at 1:30 p.m. After the report of officers and chairmen, the annual memorial service will be held. The discussion of the play, "Gold Eagle Guy," will be led by Mrs. Harry Harvey Thomas.

Mrs. August Dreyer will present the lecturer, a member of the club, Mrs. James W. Howie, who's subject is "Wit and Humor On and Off the Stage." On Friday evening at 6 p.m. Century Club members will attend the Actors' Dinner Club at Hotel Woodstock, Manhattan.

Mrs. Albert E. Thiele is in charge of sitting arrangements and Mrs. Kurt Glockner of the program. Virginia Women The next meeting of the Society Mrs.

George W. Felter president, of Virginia Women in New York, will be the regular monthly meeting on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Vanderbilt Hotel, Manhattan. Mrs. Edwin M. Beery and Mrs.

Herman L. Farberman will have charge of the meeting. Cheerio Social Cheerio Social, of which Mrs. Thomas Appleton is founderdent, observe, in January, the eighth anniversary of its founding. The program, which will be given at the Casino in Central Park, will open with the flag salute led by Miss Eunice Dittmar, honor color bearer, and, the singing of "The Banner" by the guest artist, Frederick Krull, baritone.

Luncheon will follow. The women celebrating birthdays are Mrs. Charles S. Wilson, Mrs. J.

Rankin O'Rourke, Mrs. Fredric C. Ferrell, Mrs. Harvey G. Ockendon and Mrs.

Frederick E. Fried. The women will be greeted and presentwith old-fashioned bouquets, emblem of the organization, by the president, and assisted by Mrs. Carl H. Dittmar, financial secretary of the Good Cheer flower committee.

The guests will be received by Mrs. Thomas Appleton, the women celebrating birthdays, and the members of the reception committee, who are Mrs. Charles D. Bogert, Mrs. William K.

Burns, Mrs. William A. Dibbs, Mrs. Carl H. Dittmar, Mrs.

Edward Ehrbar, Mrs. Frank H. Eldredge, Mrs. Louis Geib, Mrs. Francis John Hollings, Mrs.

William Alfred Porter, Mrs. Howard Clinton Russ, Mrs. Edwin Safford, Mrs. Albert Schuh, Mrs. Edward L.

Stoll, Mrs. Charles J. Witzel and Mrs. H. Lee Ziegler.

Mrs. Meredith Blair Lovelace is chairman of program. The courtesy committee includes Mrs. Russell O. Sayers, Mrs.

George H. Woodin, Mrs. Charles E. Wyatt, Mrs. Joseph E.

Kean, Mrs. Willis J. Blackwell, Mrs. C. E.

Warendorff, and the Misses Eunice W. Dittmar and Kathryn Ehrbar. Clio of New York will meet tomorrow afternoon at the Hotel Astor, Manhattan. A business meeting will be held at 2 o'clock and guests will be admitted at 3. Miss Margaret Wentworth will review significant current plays.

Mrs. E. George Payne will give dramatic readings. The chairman of the day will be Miss Louise H. Freyberg and the hostesses will include Mrs.

Jones E. Henry, Emma Louise Kirk, Mrs. E. George Payne and Mrs. Frank Simon.

Soroptimist Club Dr. Louise C. Ball was installed as president of the Soroptimist Club of New York City on Thursday evening, at a banquet held in the ball room of the Women's University Club, 106 E. 52d Manhattan. Iola S.

Ranck, first vice president of the American Federation of Soroptimist Clubs, installed the new officers for 1935. The new officers are: Vice presidents, Teresa Speed, Inis Weed Jones. and Mildred Kallfelz; treasurer, Pearl Enger; corresponding secretary, Toinette Johnson; recording secretary, Marion White, and directors, Blanche Crapo, Florence Lurty and Blanche Weill. The chairman of arrangements for the banquet was Helen L. Bridges.

International League The 6th Congressional District branch of the Women's International League will meet tomorrow at 2:30 p.m, in the home of Mrs. Florence Sherman, 645 Eastern Parkway, Mrs. Sherman Barnes of Mississippi will speak on "A January, 1935, Message to the President and Congressmen From Peace The Brooklyn branch of the Women's International League will Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. in Tem-' ple Avahath Sholom, 1609 Avenue R. Maria Halberstadt of Germany will speak on "Women Under Hitlerism." National Opera Club The subject for the January meeting on Saturday of the National Opera Club will be "Novelties of the Season." The meeting will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan, the club's headquarters.

The feature of the program will be the presentation of the story and libretto of the novelty, "In the Pasha's Garden," by John Lawrence Seymour, which will have its metropolitan premier on Thursday, Jan. 27. at the Metropolitan Opera. The lecture will be given by the Oriental lecturer and authority, Edna W. Lindquist.

Benjamin Adler will speak about synchronized opera. Musical numbers will be furnished by Caroline Finni, dramatic soprano, and other well known Alpha chapter of Sigma Phi Kappa will hold a tea for its pledgees on Jan 20 at the Standish Arms on Columbia Heights. Miss Dorothy Dempsey is the honorary chairman, Miss Geraldine Coughlin is chairman, with the Misses Rita Griffith, Marie Lilly and Gima Latorraca, assisting members of her committee. IOTA KAPPA The Iota Kappa sorority held its annual tea and reception for new members at the Towers Hotel, Clark and Willow last week. Two new chapters, comprised of 25 members, were honored at the reception.

Seventeen chapters were represented at the affair which was attended by 200 young women. The committee was headed by Miss Anne Abernathy. Among members of the grand council of the sorority who attended were Miss Lilian Crane, president; and the Misses Eleanor Connelly, Eileen Spohn, Bessie Healey, Natalie Nelson, Doris Tracey and Mrs. Harold Gabin. Piano and vocal selections were given Miss Ann Cudmore at the piano.

Miss Margaret Barry sang. A meeting of Mu chapter will be held today at the home of Miss Elizabeth Mackey. Those who will attend are the Misses Patricia Basil, Jean Cleland, Rita Cleary, Eugenia Keller, Rita Halloway, Eleanore Hillebrand, Muriel Schultz and Alexandra Adams. Omicron chapter held a business meeting recently at the home of Miss Anne McGonigle, 954 Ave. Miss Grace Toole, 276 Lefferts entertained at a bridge and tea recently.

Those present were the Misses Gertrude Bassler, Kathryn Francis, Margaret Haggerty, Gertrude Kelley, Mildred Leisgang, Elizabeth McArdle, Anne McGonigle, Elizabeth Reynolds, Marie Roach, Virginia Rock, and Margaret Sullivan. Miss Elizabeth McArdle was another recent hostess at a Christmas party for the members of Omicron. An initiation meeting was held on Friday at the home of Miss Marie Roach, 435 16th St. The pledgee initiated was Miss Elizabeth Reynolds. DELTA ALPHA SIGMA A business meeting of Alpha chapter of Delta toe Alpha to Sigma Sorority, will held tomorrow evening at the home of Mrs.

Arthur Heilmann, 1350 E. 28th St. PHI GAMMA SIGMA Delta Chapter of Sigma sorority will hold its annual dance at the Hotel Montclair on Friday evening, March 1. The sorority recently held a business meeting at the home of Miss Dorothy Wischmann, 55 Ridgewood Ave. ALPHA FRATERNITY Edwin East of 1079 E.

43d St. is chairman of the committee that is arranging for the annual dance of be held on Feb. 1 in Towers Hotel. MU NU CHI A committe is arranging the annual dance of Mu Nu Chi sorority, Theta Chapter, which will be held in the Towers Hotel on the evening of Feb. 15.

THETA NU A meeting of the Theta Nu sorority was held at the home of Miss Glorianna Smith. Plans were discussed for. a tea and bridge to be given at Abraham Strauss on Saturday. TAU PHI SIGMA Miss Violet Malluk entertained at her home Wednesday evening the members of Eta chapter of Tau Phi Sigma sorority. After a short business meeting there was an Old Clothes Christmas party.

Those present were the Misses Ruth Adams, Mary Avrich, Dolly Bowie, Vesta Honore, Marjorie Kline, Muriel La Combe, Ruth Lee, Doris Mullin and Muriel Rost. at the Packer Collegiate Institute and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Smith of 175 Eastern Parkway, was hostess at a luncheon and bridge at her home yesterday for some of her classmates.

Those present were the Misses Mildred Beach, Betty Briggs, Elaine Campbell, Natalie Gannett, Dorothea Mueller, Mary Powers, Mary Reynolds, Jean Russell, Betty Smith, Lucille Smith, Marion Snedecor, Doris Warner, Mildred Whitaker, Anne White and Mrs. Arthur W. Thompson. MISS SMITH HOSTESS Miss Ruth Wells Smith, a PLAN BENEFIT The executive board of St. Gregory's Auxiliary met at the home of its president, Mrs.

Edward Miles, of 486 Eastern Parkway, on Wednesday. Plans were discussed and committees appointed for the card party, which will be held for the benefit of the Ville de Sales Convalescent Home of the Diocese of Brooklyn, located at Far Rockaway, The card party will be held on Jan. 18, and Mrs. George L. Twigg of 1330 Union St.

is chairman of ticket committee. DELTA PHI SIGMA The monthly district meeting of Delta Phi Sigma sorority will be held on Thursday at home of Miss Ruth Allen at 514 E. 5th St. The regular Tau chapter meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Theodore Landgraff, 95 Zabriskie Jersey City, on Friday.

At this meeting plans for an informal dance in March will be discussed. SIX NATIONS DISCUSS JOINT BANK Ankara (AP) Six states--Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Rumania and Yugoslavia-are discussing a plan to foster economic relations by establishing a 'Bank of the Balkans." There would be branches in all six capitals and in Istanbul. HARZ THEATER IN DEEP CAVE Ruebeland, Germany (P) This Harz Mountain village boasts a theater 600 feet underground in a stalactite cave. The play, "Home in the Mountain," was the latest production in a cavern said to have been used by vehmic courts in the Middle Ages for secret and ghastly trials, SIGMA DELTA THETA The Alpha chapter of the Sigma Delta Theta sorority held its annual supper party at Essex House, Manhattan, recently. Those present were the Misses Barbara Baker, Ruth Bardell, Deynard Collins, Mabel Duff, Ruth Cavanagh, G.

Hyatt, E. Johnston, Helen Niebrugge, Patricia 'Morgan, Margaret Morgan, Patricia Price, Mildred Pye, Geraldine McLaren, Janet Smith, Elsie Maddren, Beverley Pierson, Marie Ann Miella, Katheleen Schurr, Lucille Pratt, Marjorie Squires and Estelle Velsor. Also Richard Falk, Ted Carlisle, Robert Ficker, N. Cameron, George Beatty, Leonard Schultes, William Murphy, Romanes, Roger Pettit, William Paar, James Carpenter, Anthony Fransioli, John E. Shea George Seybolt, Henry Abbott, Al Peterson, Francis Brennan, Cadet Albert Turner, Page Moore, Stewart Perry and Walter Mahoney.

0 Miss Dorothy Bourke of 799 E. 22d St. was chairman of the dance given by Zeta Chapter of Delta Sigma Chi sorority recently at the Biltmore Hotel, Manhattan. Y. W.

C. A. News Mrs. Ralph Root, chairman of the committee in charge of the Arts and Crafts Center at the Central Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association of Brooklyn, announces the opening of afternoon and evening classes in pottery in the branch, 30 3d this week. Mrs.

Aimee Le Prince Voorhees and Miss G. Marie Le Prince of the Inwood Pottery Studios will be instructors of the classes. The evening class will open tomorrow and will be held from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 o'clock. The day class will open Thursday and will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 o'clock.

Members of the committee for the Arts and Crafts Center also include Mrs. Burgess Osterhout, Mrs. Henry C. Turner and Mrs. Ruth Humble, director of the center.

Mrs. Simrell Selkirk, a member of the committee of management of the Eastern District Branch, is sponsoring a hostess course in. party planning for the business girls' department, the first lecture of which will be held on Tuesday evening at the branch, 575 Bedford Ave. Miss Aurora Viehbroch, a member of the Business Girls' Council, will assist Mrs. Selkirk.

A class in handcraft with Miss Adele Tieleke as teacher also will open on the same evening at the branch. Dr. Valeria Parker of the American Social Hygiene Association will give the first a series of four lectures on "Love and Marriage" at the Eastern District Branch on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Mrs. John B.

Andrews of the American Association for Labor Legislation will make an "Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Plans" in a talk on Thursday evening at 8:30 o'clock at the Central Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association of Brooklyn, 30 3d Ave. The talk is open to anyone who wishes to attend. It is being held under the auspices of the public affairs committee of the Brooklyn Y. W. C.

of which Mrs. Gilbert Thirkield is chairman and public affairs committees of the various branches of the association. The Sparklers' Club, composed of industrial girl members of the Central Branch, will hold a party on Tuesday evening at the branch, to which it extends a general invitation to all industrial girls who may be interested in the club and its activities to attend. Miss Mary Barr is chairman of the committee planning the party and members of the committee include the Misses ma De Freitas, Regina Schmidt, Marion La Mariana and Susanna Klein. Business girls' clubs of the Central Branch will hold a dance for members on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at the branch.

BALLOUMr. BALLOUMr. and Mrs. William F. Ballou of 8842 198th Hollis, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Evelyn Frances Ballou to Robert H.

Kirby of Bryan, Ohio. V. N. A. DIVISION TEA The Church Division in the maintenance fund campaign of the Brooklyn Visiting Nurse Association will hold a tea meeting on Wednesday afternoon at the Flatbush Congregational Church, Dorchester Road and E.

18th St. Mrs. Warner chairman of the Church will preside. of Adrian the Van Bindereny, Visiting presNurse Association, will speak briefly. Miss Jennie Behrbohm, supervisor of the Flatbush-Bay Ridge substation of the Brooklyn Visiting Nurse Association, will give a demonstration.

Plans for the participation of church women and general plans for the campaign which will open with a luncheon at the Hotel Bossert on Jan. 16 also. will be announced. Mrs. T.

D. Huntting and Mrs. August Brahe are assistant chairmen of the Church Division. Denominational leaders for the Church Division include: Baptist, Orrin R. Judd; Congregational, Mrs.

Arthur K. King; Dutch Reformed, Mrs. Charles Van Nuis; Episcopal, Mrs. Robert V. Squires; Lutheran, Mrs.

William Mehrtens; Methodist, Mrs. Alfred Nelson; Presbyterian, Mrs. Edwards L. Cleaveland, with Mrs. Frederick Becker and Mrs.

Charles H. Corbett, assistant leaders. ANNUAL DANCE The Ladies' Auxiliary of Flatlands Post, 391, American Legion, will hold its annual dance on Saturday evening, Jan. 19, at the Flatlands Memorial Building, Nostrand Ave. and Avenue I.

Mrs. Elizabeth Griswold is general chairman. The committee consists of: Arrangements, Mrs. Margaret Meyers, chairman; Mrs. Emma Braetling, Mrs.

Bertha Brooks, Mrs. May Huth. Entertainment, Miss Evelyn Martin, chairman; Miss Carolyn Linker, Mrs. Veronica Rogers, Mrs. Helen Murray, Miss Florence Kear.

Reception, Mrs. Florence Scott, chairman; Mrs. Minnie Higgins, Mrs. Emily Sorenson, Mrs. Katherine Martin, Mrs.

May Harris, Mrs. J. Kear, Mrs. Bertha Knaup, Mrs. Mildred Hutzelman, Mrs.

G. McDermott, Mrs. J. Remig. Publicity, Mrs.

Trudie Senft, chairman: Mrs. E. McDonnell, Mrs. N. Nelson, Mrs.

Eleanor Pullman. Door, Mrs. Lucy Eckhoff, chairman; Mrs. J. Kelly, Mrs.

Sadie Trabold, Miss Helen Travis. Refreshments, Miss Bertha Horn, chairman; Mrs. Jean Fletcher, Mrs. Betty Higgins, Mrs. George Travis and Mrs.

J. Hossee. The officers of the auxiliary are: President, Mrs. Florence Scott; first vice president, Miss Bertha Horn; second vice president, Mrs. Katherine Martin; treasurer, Mrs.

Trudie Senft; secretary, Mrs. Lucy Eckhoff; chaplain, Mrs. May Harris; sergeant-at-arms, Mrs. Mildred Hutzelman. Mr.

and Mrs. Alfred G. MacCourt of Washington and The Towers spent the holiday season at the capital, stopping at the Mayflower Hotel. Mrs. MacCourt is the former Miss Virginia Dimmick Leach of I Columbia Heights.

Mrs. Joseph Krimsky, left, is rice chairman of the HadassahUniversity Hospital Fund Committee for which a Victory Dance is being given tonight at the Hotel St. George. Mrs. George Offin, right, is vice president of Brooklyn Hadassah and an ardent worker for tonight's benefit.

NU PI UPSILON A Christmas party for the Nu PI Upsilon sorority was held at the home of Miss Lauretta Gleeson, 633 Monroe St. The members attending were the Misses Natilie Briggs, Dorothy Clark, Kathryn Daly, Peggy English, Lauretta Gleeson, Jeanne Herbert, Rita Howley, Catherine and Betty Humann, Miriam McKegney, Dorothy Nauheimer, Kathleen O'Brien, Rose Marie O'Reilly, Ruth Swift and Frances Young. On Friday evening the sorority attended "Dodsworth" at the Shubert Theater. KAPPA TAU LAMBDA The annual supreme chapter dance of Kappa Tau Lambda fraternity will be held on Friday evening, Jan. 25, at the Park Central Hotel, Roger Flaherty is chairman of arrangements and will be assisted by Fred Strittmatter, Raymond Murphy, Raymond Treacy, Arthur Bossert, Ray Connell, Matthew Ryan, Edward Reid, Herbert Browne and Kenneth Nearey.

Zeta chapter held a meeting Friday night at the home of John Woods, 2205 Foster Ave. SIGMA KAPPA Miss Evelyn Ritchie of 752 St. Johns Place, representing the Sigma Kappa fraternity, will be a member of the hostess committee for the third bridge party in the Panhellenic Bridge Tournament, to be given next Wednesday evening, at the Beekman -Tower, 3 Mitchell Place, Manhattan. The hostess committee for this evening's play, just named by Mrs. John R.

Price of Forest Hills, chairman of the inter -fraternity committee, is composed of members of four local chapters of national women's fraternities: Sigma Kappa, Phi Mu, Alphi Chi Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta. Two hundred and thirty members of fraternities living in Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey and Greater New York are enrolled in the tournament, which is being sponsored by the Panhellenic House Association of which Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn is president, The remaining three tournament parties will be given on Jan. 16, Jan.

23. and Jan. 30. A silver loving cup will be awarded as trophy to the winner. IOTA KAPPA A meeting of Sigma chapter of the Iota Kappa sorority will be held on Tuesday at the home of Miss Betty O'Toole, 280 E.

37th St. Misses Kunzinger, Ellen Those presenter will include the Wansberry, Kathleet Condon, Agnes Nolan, Mildred Cunningham, Gertrude McGrane, Etta Kenny, Vera Moffat, Cathryn Murray, Jean Gregory and Miriam Williams. THETA PHI SIGMA The annual dance of the Theta Phi Sigma sorority will be held in the Towers Hotel, Clark and Willow on Feb. 22. Corsica 'Discovers' Columbus Birthplace Calvi, Corsica (P) -The citizens of Calvi are convinced that Christopher Columbus was born her in a tumbledown hovel, historians to the contrary.

To be on the safe side the city council denied to buy the old house. The owner, an Englishwoman, Mrs. Baker, asked $466. The council thought this too much for A building that might fall down any minute, and offered $46. After some hesitaton Mrs.

Baker accepted the offer, realzng that should the house be declared an hstorical monument, she would be obliged by law to put it in repair at her own expense. Mrs. former daughter Fishman Sidney Gilinsky is the Miss Miriam Fishman, of Mr. and Mrs. Louis of, 695 Grand So.