Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1923, Page 28

THE SUNDAY 9 ))) N4 1 ) OIS h—« HaR; ew Mi1ds LAURA WINDER MARSHALT,, vesented to society by her parents Gesn. and re. Rickard Marshall Jt Weduesday evening. White House to Lead Way { For Simple Enjoyment of Christmas in Washington Boys and Girls at Home From School Will Dance( Way Through Ha]idays——Othcr Social Events Planned. | | | BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. ! | HE Capital is never more kaleidoscopic in atmosphere than at Christmas time, the big vision of celebrating the season ranging | from the simple old-fashioned New England celebration at the | White House and the varied forms carried out by the forty-nine | foreign powers represented in the diplomatic corps, on through the large colony of retired rich folk or the government clerk on limited salary. The sons of the President and Mrs. Coolidge joined them early last week, and the historic mansion has never housed a more, typically American family, sanely full of Christmas joy. Entertainment, except of a domestic nature, practically is abandoned at the White House until New Year day, when the official reception will be held. HILE members of the cabinet and their families will confine their Christmas hospitality within their own households, other residents of the Capital are entertaining constantly for the schoolgirl and school- boy element at home for the holidays. Future belles and beaux will lead in cotillons, fancy dances and the merely small and early affairs, debu- tantes and others equally advanced on the social highway ending all other forms of entertainment with a few rounds at the Children’s Country Home ball at Rauscher's Christmas night. For a fact, the younger set will fairly dance through Christmas day and night, the Children's Coun- try Home ball, with its fashinable following, being preceded in the after- noon by the first of the series of dances given by the younger set of the Army, N and Marine Corps, and known as the Junior Service Asso- | ciation. This year the entire series will be given at the New Willard. HERE will be a dance at the Washington barracks Wednesday after noon for the West Point cadets spending the week in Washington, and Thursday night Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis will give a small dance for Miss Mary Hale. Friday Mr. and Mrs. William Newton Gulick will give a dance in the Metropolitan Club Annex for the latter's daughter, Miss C. Adclaide Wolstenholme. Another interesting affair of Friday night will be the costume ball for young folk given by Mrs. Francois Berger Moran, with her daughters, Mrs. Macfarland and Mrs. McConihe, assisting HE Children’s Hospital ball is one of Washington's oldest and most | important social institutions, and the night of January 2 will be al-‘ most devoid of social entertainment except that leading to the New Wil- | lard, where both ballrooms will be occupied for the occasion. Many | dinner parties are being arranged for that evening, among those enter- taining and latter octupyini boxes at the ball being Mr. and Mrs. Frank {K. Noyes, Mrs. Lucien L. Kinsolving, Mrs. William D. West and Mrs. Ritter. 1SS MARY WALLACE, daughter of the Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. Wallace, is chairman of the committce in charge of an enter- | tainment to be given at Memorial Continental Hall the afternoon of | January 16, at 4:30 o'clock, under the auspices of the Washington branch | of Vassar Alumnac. The program will be presented by Edna St. Vincent Millay, who will read her poems. She is a graduate of Vassar, 1917, and won the Pulitzer prize for the best poetry of the year. She is also the author of “Aria de Capo.” a play, given at Twin Oaks two seasons ago. | Sponsorulg{lhc affair with Miss Wallace are Mrs. Alvin Dodd, Mrs. G. E. Lee, jr.; Mrs. Leonard Block, Miss Dorothy Johnson and Miss Anna rner. MANY members of the cabinet and diplomatic corps are showing keen interest in the “Bal Boheme” of the Arts Club of Washington Mon- day, January 7, at the New Willard, and which includes an unusual fea- ture in the nature of a chauve souris entertainment, called the “Seven Ages of Art.” the scenes being sponsored by Mrs. Barney, Mrs. Foulke, | Mrs.]&ell. i‘:;[rs.hTuc\firma{}vanii( Mfi. Wadsworth. A'mon{hth: patronesses are Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Weeks, Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Willi ips, | Mrs. Pepper and Mrs. Elkins. AR SRS evening for their schoolgiris’ - ters, Mins Victoria Tytus Miss Fion ence Meyer and Miss Nell Thoron. Mr. and M will entertain Teas and Luncheons Feature Festivities Maj. and Mrs. Parker W. West en- tertained at dinner last evening In honor of the minister of Bulgaria and Mme. Panaretoff, when thelr other guests included the minister of Persia, Mirza Husslen Khan Alal; the charge d'affaires of Austria and Mme. Prochnik, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mec- Kenney, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nor- ment, Dr. and Mrs. Davenport White rs. Emerson Howe. and Mrs. West will entertain at dinner Saturday evening, January 5, when their guests are asked to meet the Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Work. ‘Miss Rosalle Drake, daughter of the assistant _secretary of commerge and Mrs. J. Walter Drake, will be the uest in whose honor Mrs. E. r §ones and her daughter. Miss Cecil Lester Jones, will entertain tea oon from 6 to 7 o'clock, The gu include debutantes of this season and last and many of the young men home from college for the holida: Mrs. Drake will preside at the tea isted by Mrs. Leonard Block F. Addison Brastow, 2d. Massachusetts avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Carmalt also have with them for the holidays thelf two sons Leonard and Mrs. Byron S. Adams, assisted b Mra. J. Craig Kink, wite of Maj. J. Craig King, United States Atmy, has issued invitations for a luncheon to be given on December 21. Christmas Party Given At Grace Dodge Hotel Last night guests at the Grace Dodge Hotel were given a very de- lighttul Christmas party. Th Christmas tres in the court; twinkling with many eolored siéctrig lights, and lent a brilliant touch of color to the scene, Bingers from ti yarious community houl of the Young Women's Christian Association rendered many of the old carols that have won such a place In our Christ- music. ‘The feature of the evening was a concert given by Vietor anllhlfl. Helen Gerrer, viol t, and Katherine Rigi harpist, Katherine Weber wi e plano. The program conclud with the ensemiie “Silent Night,” t Christmas song of mon and t mingled strains of the voice, har d plano brought the spirit .fl VOIy Dean, Mrs. John Stewart McLennan will entertain at a buffet luncheon today for her daughter, Miss Mildred Tytus, in compliment to Miss Elizabeth Hitt and Miss Helena Lod, T will include the season's debutants Mrs. McLennan, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, -, and Mrs. Henry Leonard will be Joint hostesses as-a-dance Thurtday nis th large | ;. RS . 2,) WAVAT A4S cwoemmoces W /0! 7 ONOERWSSD T RS Miss .AN NA SOUTHARD LARNER, STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, ) Y@ /MRS BURTON K. &4 WHEELER, Wife of Senator Wheelet,of Montana, and their childrew, Johw, Elizavethy Trances, Rictrard Debutante daudhter of Me and Mrd. John IS Engagements to Wed Mark the Calendar Of Holiday Period Betrothal of Miss Anthony, Daughter of Congressman, to Lieut. Sawtelle Among Announcements. Representative Daniel Read An- thony of Kansas and Mrs. Anthony announce the engagement of their daughter, Eleanor Havens, to Lieut. Donald W. Sawtelle, U. S. A, sta- tioned at Fort Myer. Miss Anthony is one of the most charming girls of the congresslonal set, and is a grad- uate of Miss Bennett's School, at Mil- burn, N. Y. Her father is the nephew of Busan B. Anthony. Mrs. Effie H. Briand, widow of Capt. Christian Briand, U. 8. A., announces the engagement of her daughter Josephine Olga, to Midshipman John Fillmore Addoms, U. S. N. Rear Admiral and Mrs. Spencer Shepard Wood announce the engage- ment of their daughter Margarette to Mr., John Howard Nott Potter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Nott Potter of New York. Miss Wood made her debut in Bos- ton several winters ago, and is a member of the Junior League. Mr. Potter was in the class of 1919, Unlon College, and saw service dur- Ing the war as a lieutenant of artil- The wedding wil} take place in the spring. Mr. Frank nounces the engagement of his da Frances Gertrude to Mr. Edward J. Webb, jr., of Philadelphia. No date has been set for the wedding. The enft‘amem of Miss Anne Web- ster Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Wilson of Kensington, Md., to Lieut. Willlam H. Buracker of the United States navai air service, was announced yesterday at & lunch- eon party. Guests were Mrs. Richard L. Waters of Germantown, Mrs. Wilson L. Town- send of Kensington, Miss Eleanor Ray Maughiin of Boyd, Mra. Ciyde Stout and Miss Rose Dawson of Rockville, Miss Ruth Lai 'ton, Edith Ray A. MacNichol an- Miss Emil; 00 and Mis Buhret r&mlnflon and Mrs, 5‘37 Brooka uniu*és‘fnm arnes. = e (0 > el | | T TRoE R uoar - Christmas Day Festivities ~ In Plans of the Diplomats Ambassadors and Ministers to Entertain Mem- bers of Official Families—Secretary and Mrs. Hughes Honored. the embassy staft at dinner Christ- mas night. The ambassador of Spain and Senora de Riano will have the mem- bers of the embassy staff and their wives dining with them Christmas night at the embassy. The ambassador of Belgium and Baroness de Cartier will give their usual Christmas day dinner, when their guests will include the mem- bers of' the embassy staff. Ambassadors and ministers are | planning to entertain members of | their staffs at Christmas, most of them giving midday feasts on Christ- mas day. Last night the ambassa- dor of France, and Mme. Jusserand entertained the Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes at dinner, the event being almost the last formal party in the corps until after Christmas. The ambassador of France and Mme. Jusserand entertained a dis- tinguished company at dinner last evening in the embassy in honor of the Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes. The other guests were the ambassador of Japan and Mme. the ambassador of Cuba, Hanihar: Senor de la Torriente; Benator and Mrs. Irvine L. Lenroot, Senator Sel- ‘The_ambassador of Germany and Frau Wiedfeldt will be hosts to the members of the embassy staff and thelr “wives at dintier Christmes night. The minister of Norway and Mme. Bryn will entertaln the members of the legatlon staft at dinner tomor- row evening, when the usual Nor- :el%lln Christmas celebration will be eld. den P. Spencer, the minister of Ecuador and Senora de Elizalde, the minister of Uruguay and Mme. Va- rela, the minister of Siam, Phya Buri Navarasth; _ Representative Stephen G. Porter, former_ Attorney General and Mrs. George W. ersham, Prof. and Mrs. Henry Fileld Osborne, Mrs. Henry %moth Mrs. F ric A. Keep, Mrs. illie, Mlss nd the counselor of the e Laboulaye. a3 . Jumse- rand will entertain the members of —— e Mrs. Frank Roberts and Miss Helen Hayden of Baltimor The engagement of Miss Dorothy Meyers of Cincinnati to Mr. Eppa Rixey, ir., formerly of Richmond, has just been announced. » Mr. Rixey, who is a kinsman of Rear Admiral Grayson, {8 a graduate of the University of Virginia, celved his B. A. and 8. He is nbw engaged In’ business in Cincinnatl, M eyers made a host f friends ln Virginia while & .E; twe ‘yours at’ Be! The minister of Ecuador and Senora -de Elizalde will entertain the members of the legation staff at luncheon Christmas day. Senora de Elizalde will receive Friday afternoon, January 4, at the legation. The minister of Switzerland and Mme.. Peter will have the members of the legation staft to dine with them Ghristmas night. The. minister of Sweden and Mme, Wallenberg will be hosts to the members of the legation staff tomor- row evening, according to the cus- tom of the Christmas celebration in Sweden. The minister and Mm Wallenbers have as their guests th. former’s nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs Marcus Wallenberg of New York;_the Bwedish consul general at New York, Mr. Olaf Herman Lamm, and their son, berg, who is & student at Harvard The minister of the Serbs, Croa and Slovenes, Dr. Ante Tresich Pa« ch Bt Rngl G e Wick- where he re- de, x‘nt" Collega DECEMBER 23, 1923—-PART 2. S Mpg A MITCRTELL PALMER" Just returned fomEurope ancl at er home om R street, or winter. | Some Cabinet Heads Leave the Capital For Holiday Period Secretnry and Miss Mellon Going to Pittsburgh——Sec- retary and Mrs. Weeks Among Absentees. The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Andrew Mellon, and his daughter, Miss Allsa Mellon, will leave Wash- ington tomorrow for their home in Pittsburgh to remain over the holl- days. Mr. Paul Mellon, son of the Secretary, will also spend the holi- days at the Pittsburgh home. The Secretary of War and Mrs. ‘Weeks left last evening for Boston to remain over Christmas with thelr son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Sinclalr Weeks. The Attorney General, Mr. Daugh- erty, is visiting his mother at Wash- ington Court House, Ohio. He will return to Washington to pass Chri Mr. Bertin Wallen« ;. ts M noiaays thelr Som, Allan mas day with Mrs. Daugherty at Wardman Park Hotel The Postmaster General and Mrs. | Harry 8. New will spend Christmas in Washington and will have guests dining with them informally. The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. 'Denby and their children will remain in Washington for the holidays. ‘he Secretary of the Ingerior Mr Work will return to Washin at the end of the week from Evans- where they went to spend with their son-in-law and Mr. and Mra. Albert W. and 8t Christmi daughter, Bissell. The_Secretary of Agrioculture and Mrs. Henry C. Wallace and their fam. ily will spend Christmae day with and Mrs. Judson C. Welliver at the! home near Rockvi The Secretary of Commerce and rs. Hoover will have with them for loover. The United States minister to :M ‘l‘h“lr r'l:rn T uvu; °w..n. eon aiye will-be: e tae bollt ilh! same night. land last night, and tonight the so- {50 far this season. Society Gathers in Welcome of New York’s Younger Set Many Arriving From Schools and Colleges Eager ’ for Yuletide Festivities—Many Entertain- ments on Week.fl Calendar. NEW YORK, December 22.—Society | Harry Payne Whitney, the 1la has gathered at the gates of m:-‘(\,“r'd‘d G, Vanderbiit and Reginald C. anderbilt city to welcome the younger set “'hn‘ The Gould house, where the late * are gally trouping homeward from‘- T. ?‘r:'l .\Il"(. 'ZrHKl!rY An(rgdux;d thelr oo | daughters to socie! nd wher: schools and colleges, eager for the | .ceptions following the weddin round of social affairs which have|St. Bartholomew's Church of the been arranged for them during the|daughters. Marjorie to.Anthony 23 ¢fll b constant Drexel, Jjr., and Vivian to Coun holidays. There w s = oon Decies, were held, has long beer series of entertainments, Iur\cheun\."fl\lm»vltl"l for its lavish hospitality. i . also has an enormous bailroom receptions, dinners, dances and chari- 0, 1) Jo (i Celebrated parts table affairs in which the young pen- Marjorie Gould was given for hor ple will take an active part So | formal debut, on which occasion h numerous are the dances scheduled|¢nEagement to Mr. Direxel was ar for the week opening tomorrow that as many os four are to be given on an nounced. It was one of the la parties at which the cotillon w danced, with Phoenix Ingraham les ing with the debutante. The fi were of gold and silver and the a cost thousands of dollars. Farewell to Mrx. Roche. New York soclety Is preparing to bid farewell to Mrs. Roche. who s t home in 23 W the re: ¥ of genuine regref m to the kindly-heart has furnish. b many intere The rush homeward began Frida cial activities have taken on an old-time zest that has been lacking Dances Feature Program. Last night Mrs. John N. Gardiner gave a large dance for her debutante daughter, Miss Alice Gardiner, at herry's; Mrs. John Herbert Ballan- e a similar affair at the Essex b, at Orange, N. J., for her nieces. Miss' Alice Bailantine Young, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Youns. Miss Mary Grace Coles, daughter of and Mrs. William Chauncey | . and Miss Gertrude Montgom- | ery, 'daughter of Hey. and Mrs. Archibald Eglinton Montgome is the adieu an wi s of gossip in th Her depar nal que nong the odler set, “What will hay pen next?” Love, marriage spirit of independence are the lights in the career of Mrs. Ruche, who i preparing to gc Her household furnishings divorce and a fi h Bur} abroa nd ol and th u mmer, has fallen many pieces within the last wes which were reckoned as the last word in luxury when imported to this country, Her tastes in art were ¢ tensive and ranged from Chinese bri a-brac to Henry VIII sofas in crini- son velvet. The sum realized frc is York motored out to this dance. On the same night Mrs. Bayard Domi- nick gave a dance at Pierre debutante granddaughter, Miss' Mar- | ion Dominick Smith, daughter of Mr. | and Mrs. H. Alexander Smith of Princeton. In addition to these three dances, there were numerous dinners and & half a dozen recep-|the sale, sid” will run in tions in the afternoon for debutantes. the thou It was the busiest day of the s Well gon, but was surpassed in brilliancy { the sale of by today's entertainments. Dr. and, cabinets of tulipwood. Mrs. Frederick Grosvenor toires. coats of arms embroidered ¢ dance at the Colony Club to old velvet. Louis Quatorze furnitu duce their daughter, Miss Evelyn G.|and other antiques, ask with amus: Goodridge; Mr. and ‘Mrs. John Wood . “What next Blodgett entertained in a simiiar fashion at the Ritz-Cariton for Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hadley John Wood Blodgett, Jr Mrs. Pwight Whitney Morrow & a dance at the Knickerbocker Coun- try Club, Englewood, N. J, for their debutante daughter, Miss Elizabeth Morrow; the first of the middle holi- day dances for juniors was held at the Hotel Plaza, and receptions were given earller in the day by Mrs. Harry B. Hollins, jr, to introduce her daughter, Miss Lillian Hollins; Mre. Justus Ruperti, for her debu- tante daughter, Miss Florence Emily Ruperti, which was followed by dance_in_the evening, and Mrs. Wil- liam V. B. Kip gave a reception for Juniors at the Plaza. This same killing pace will be kept up all through next week and until New Year eve, which will bring the holi- day season to & climax with several smart dances. Notes of Special Interest. The news of the last few days of the most interest to society is the rumor of the sale of the dow Mrs. Vanderblit's house on 5th avenue between 57th and G8th streets and her purchase ofs the late George Jay Gould house at 67th street and 5th avenue. Both these houses have been the scene of some of New York’'s most brilllant entertainments. Mrs. Vanderbilt has entertained but little in the last few years, two or three dances having been given in that time by her for relatives of the younger generation. Before the war, however, each winter she gave large receptions with music,’ and two or & , as_it watche t French escr carriages * was that. and no ings of the Thursda 2 ib are events to be che ished. These affairs are symbolic « the past, when the social barrie were lowered to admit only peop who bore unimpeachable credentiais as to family and worth. The first gathering of the season of the Thursday Evening Club wis hela recently at the home of Mrs. Lo Roy King. According to the custor of years there was a conversazion which was followed by a bufft supper. When Country Was Youns. The so-called conversazione is survival of the dignified times whe the country was young. Then it wa that the older folks of the leadin families gathered about the open fire places in ancestral halls to discuss the topics of the day over bowls of dellcately flavored rack punch mulled wines. Occasionally songs Youthful days would be sung, or, mavhap, there would be @ reading from the plays of Shakespeare or Steele or papers of the witty Ad- dison. Courtly bows were made Silks rustled and links flared on t! sidewalks as milady was escorted her chair to be borne homeward. Following these lines, with mode: modifications, the club meets at ti different private homes of i mem - bers during the winter, and may we be called the inner shrine of New York soclety. "Among the members are: Mrs. Pler- three dances, which were among the most notable of the season. ~The house is one of the largest in the city and h allroom that will accommod several hundred danc- era It was from this house that her Mr. Mrs. Robert W Y “Giadys, married the Count [ Paul Dana, Mr. and ey, Chow Hunwarian minister | de Forest, Mrs. Cadwalalder Jones, %o this country. Her other children | Mrs. Willlam Post and Mr. F. Delano are Gen. Cornellus Vanderbilt, Mrs | Weekes. pont Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Geor, B, McClennan, Mrs. Vanderbilt, M:. and Mrs, Herbert L. Satterlee, Prof and Mrs. H. Fairfield Osborn, Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Choate, Mr. and TS, Many List for Christmas Night Ball for Charity All of the boxes for the ball which will be glven Tuesday evening at Rauscher's for the benefit of the Children's Country Home, which Is the annual Christmas night ball, ha: been taken. The complete list in- cludes the President and Mrs. Cool- idge, who have accepted a box; Sen- ator and Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, jr., Senator and Mrs. James Couzens, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leiter, Mr. ana Mrs. John Hays Hammond, Col. and Mrs. Morris Ernest Locke, Mr. and Mrs, Lyman B. Kendall, Col. and Mrs. Robert M. Thompson, Col. and Mrs. Stephen L. H. Slocum, Col. and Mrs, Herbert J. Slocum, Gen. and Mrs. John A. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur O'Brien, Mrs. Richard H. Townsend, Mrs. John R. Willlams, Mrs. Edward C. Walker, Mme. Hauge and Mr. N. . Luttrell. S Mrs. Wadsworth, wife of Senaton James W. Wadsworth, jr., is chalire man of the committes on ticke Rickard. Mr. Herbert Hoover, jr, the Secretary's older son, will not have a vacation long enough to per- mit his coming home. The Secrstary of Labor, Mr. James J. Davis, and his two older children, James and Jane, will return to Wash- ington tomorrow after passing a short time with the children’s grand- mothers, one in Pittsburgh and one in Sharon. ator and Mrs. George Wharton Pnsnepnar will spend Christmas in their in Philadelphia, where they will go today. They will not return to their apartment at the Powhatan until after New Y day. Mi Robert N. Stanfield, wife of Senator Stanfleld of Oregon, joined her husband at the New Willard Hotel Friday morning, and today they are taking possession of an apartment at 2400 16th street. Mrs. Stanfleld re- turned in time to attend with Senator Stanfield the first Friday evening dancing class in the red suite at the New Willard. The istant Secretary of the E‘AX n Theodore Roosevelt as t) ra sts fof the holidays mgtner, Mrs, Heary e 3 4 a