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SUfTRAGISTSENT t: R T AINrI iTHOUSANDSCongressional Union ReceptionThrong Requires Two Receiving Lines; Mrs, 0. H. P. Belmont and Mrs. William Ran-!dolph Hearst Among HostesseslyjORE than 1,000 guests at the reception given by the Congressional Union yesterday afternoon on the eve of the Woman's Party convention necessitated two receiving lines, instead of one. and an additional room to accommodate the crowds.The art rooms of the Blackstone Hotel were packed from the opening hour of the reception until the dinner hour. Hundreds of suffragists and delegates to the Progressive convention got acquainted and talked politics around the punch table. yHE reception was half over before itwas discovered the guests had been beguiled into drinking ice water, instead of the real thing. Miss Alice Paul, national chairman of the Union, discovered the trick and hurriedly sent for real punch to replace the water. Misunderstanding about the order is said to have been the cause of the punchless punch served during I the early hours of the party.The presence of Mrs. O. P. Belmont j of New York and other notable : women in the receiving line caused such a crush at the height of the festivities that the line had to disband. Another was speedily organized and the overflow spilled into a large room adjoining the reception suite. Those who served in the first line were Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Mrs. Belmont, Mrs. Thomas H. Banning Jr., Mrs. Charles W. Kay-ser. Mrs. W. I. Thomas, Mrs. William Lorenz. Mrs. Bertram Sippy, Miss Ella Abeel, Mrs. Ross W. F. Kennedy, Mrs. Charlotte Rhodus, president of the Cook County Woman's Party; Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout. Mrs. William Severin, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Treadwell, Mrs. Avery Coonley, Mrs. A. E. Halstead, Mrs. Julius Rosen-wakl and Mrs. Orvin L. Fox.|N the second line were Mrs. LawrenceLewis of Philadelphia,-Mrs. Nina ;I S. Allender of Washington, Mrs. Wil- j | lian Kent of California, Miss Lucy j i Burns. Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr, Mrs. | Maurice Goodkind. Mrs. H. M. Wil- | marth, Mrs. Harold Ickes, Mrs. William Bross Loyd, Mrs. L. Brackett Bishop and Mrs. Robert Kohlhamer.The lion of the party was William J. Prendergast, Comptroller of the Treasury Qf New York, who, with Mrs. Prendergast, is a strong supporter of the new Woman's Party; Judge Gemmill and L. H. Knox of Chicago; B. F. Fridge, Progressive national committeeman from Mississippi; Walter J. Thompson, Progressive delegate from Washington; J. | H. Braly, Progressive delegate from I California, and Arthur Brisbane ofNew York.New Club GivesieStitd.iyillisnChicago Dramaie*Pwtsae.Four plays, the work of Chicago writers, last night ushered into existence “The Players’ Workship,” a new organization of the artists’ colony at Fifty-seventh street and Stoney Island avenue. The organization aims to present during the first week of every month original work by Chicago dramatists. Among those who witnessed the first night’s offering in the “Workshop’’ at 1544 East Fifty-seventh street were Mrs. Arthur Aldis, Kennth S. Goodman, Oren E. Taft and W. P. Nelson.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Tue, Jun 06, 1916
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