Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1927, Page 65

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. DECEMBER 4, MME. CLAUDEL ,WIFE ofthe AMBASSADOR, of FRANCE, whoge mh‘oohfmt«_ow to Washin the Prosidenty r2ceptio gton societyavill be aty n Thutsday Brilliant Society Events InProgramatWhite House | Feature Week Just Closed gl i Reception in Honor of Diplomatic Corps Excep-| tionally Notable—Future Schedule Includes Eatire Weck of Opera. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. UST as last week passed in a veritable blaze of gl so this week | enters with'a sch: fici ¢ brilliant to fiil a month’s program | in any other city. 1t and Mrs. Coolidge contribute the second of the state ertertainments in the form of the most bril- liant reception which could be given in this country—the- President and the First Lady of the Land as hosts, the Vice President and cabinet as aides and all of the more important countries of the world represented through their respective representatives. Add to this a brilliant array of society from ‘many cities and that is the diplomatic reception of Thurs- day night. of opera with the Washington National Opera Co., which has enlisted not only the most important officials of this country the interest the President of France, who sends at his nation’s own expense a golden-throated artist, but likewise at- tracts all of the diplomats accredited to Washington. Irom far away cities guests will come to attend the various operas and Wednesday night the beautiful costume ball at the Mayflower, the first opera ball ever given in Washington, will take place, and while it will not compare with the opera balls of Paris in the long ago in point of revelry, it will touch quite as artistic a no HEN there is a whole week RS. KELLOGG, with her artistic instinct, chooses the Pan-American Union Building for the larger dinner parties at which she and the Secre- v of e are hosts, and last night the scene was one of surpassing table built around the Aztec fountain in the patio, low mounds of vellow flowers showing in contrast to the beauty of the foun- tain and the background of tall palms and stately pillars giving an almost theatrical sctting. local charities, which depend so much on the Winter ies for support, are in progress, the babies of France hat must not go unhecded, and from a ramshackle abode pless little things are installed and cared for in what is uchesse de Vandome Home for Babies comes the star- ‘America ¢an help, the hospital-nursery-home must Iy out funds. The Ambassador~of France, M. ador of Belgium, Prince de Ligne, are sponsoring c given tonight at 9 o'clock in the ballroom of the May- ver Hotel. Idalia Hare, own to society as Mrs. Morin S. Hare, will > the s and many who appreciate her lovely voice have come from >hiladelphia and other cities to hear her. and the ncert to be wnder fashionable patronage, will occupy cre is a likelihood of the President Monday, Tuesday and ngton National Opera Co. there will be mauyi b opens tomorrow with the convening of Congress, | il the close of the session, the club, with Mrs. tcnt, will hold one of the most important ogram. The first of the weckly tea parties will 10on with the new members of Congress and their * Luncheon Club will hold its first informal feast Thomas R. Marshall, first presi- attend. The club was started by Mrs. her late husband was Vice Capitol and Mrs. the club, wi World War of Miss Jessica Idanthea Moffat to | Hubert Ward Bayette, U. S. A., and Licut. D. E. Lowry of Phila-| the ushers, with but one list includes Capt. Joseph N. idr. Arthur C. Davis, Lieut. T. H. 3. ing and Mr. John C. Sweeney. Attending ss Ruth Hollinger of Akron, Ohio, maid of honor; Mme. New York, matron of honor, and six bridesmaid liss Adglaide Douglas, Miss Nancy Hamilton, guerite Orme and Miss Marjorie Van Bolt of At Homes Announced No cards will be issued. 1 Kelley will give her usual | . s | Christmas party for the Iowa delega- With: Dates ‘Anncxed | Goristmas rarty for the Tone e re The Surgeon General of the Public | the city at that time. Health Service and Mr: Cumming will be at h ernoon at 5 o'clock the office of the Public Health Se i | o Mrs. Henry F. Dimock and Miss codoria alani will not be it homé this afternoon. Venezuelan Legation Scene of Brilliant Wedding Ccrcmony' S, S Maria Jimenez Becomes Bride | of Senor Gilberto Caprilcs. Dinner Party Follows. enorita Louisa The Venezuelan legation at 1102 Sixteenth street was the scene last evening of the marriage of Sencrit: Maria Louisa Jimenez to Senor Gil- berto Capriles of Caracas, Venezuela. The bride is a daughter of the Min- ister of War and Marine of Venezuela, Senor Don C. C. Jimepez Redolledo ind Senora de Jimenez, who are spend- ing some time at the Hotel Mayflower, and Senor Capriles is a son of Senora de Elias Capriles of Caracas and the late. fenor Capriles. The ceremony was performed in the drawing room of the legation, where an improvised al- tar was arranged of palms, ferns and quantities of white chrysanthemums and white ro: Rev, P: cio Herz of the Carmelite Fathers, officiated at 7 o'clock in the presence of a small company and a dinner party followed in the Chinese room of the Hotel. The bride, who is a gifted has studied for some time in wore a becoming gown of white s trimmed with rare old lace. The dress was fashioned with moderate low neck and long close fitting sleeves, a semi- fitting bodice and full skirt. Her court train was covered with her tulle vell, which was held becomingly about her head with pearls, and she carried a shower bouquet of lilies of the valley. She was attended by her two sis. ters, Senorita Margot Jimenez and Senorita Carlota Jimenez, who were in similar cestumes of shell pink taffeta and carried pink roses. Cadet Jose i who is here from the military brother of the bride, was de Jimenez, mother of the received with the bride »om after the dinner, wore a gown of black taffeta made in bouf- fant fashion and Senora de Grisanti, wife of the Minister of Venezuela, who also was in the receiving line was in a pink beaded robe. The Minister and Senora de Grisanti acted as hosts at the dinner, the guests including the Minister of Pan- ama and Senora de Alfaro; the Min- i of Nicaragua and Senora de director general the Pan n Union, Dr. ant director general and Mrs. Gil Borges and their daughter, Miss Maria Gil Borges; the secretary of the Panama legation and Senor de Che: ; the milit attache of the Span- the New @ Senora de ;o DEg rs. Bolivar Lloyd; the Senoritas ighters of the minister; s, Mrs. Mina Gruilhet, Senor Alberto Adriani, Senor Jose Falcon, | Senor Carlitos Jimenez; the counselor, Senor D , and the attache, Senor Dr. Manuel R. of the Venezuelan legation. Ma;. ar;g Mrs. Parker West At Home This Afternoon Maj. and Mrs. Parker W. West will be at home in their quarters at the Soldiers’ Home this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. Mrs, Emory Smith and Mrs, Merritte W Tr heppard, Mrs W King, Bryant 5, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Sande rs. Emerson Howe will alternately preside at the tea table. A charming group of girls, who wil a ate at the punch table, will in- : A Charlotte Childress, Miss Whelen, Miss Myra Rivers, Miss Evelyn Gordon and Miss Carolyn Chambers. Assisting generally will be Mrs. Peyton Gordon and Mrs. Sidney Taliaferro. Arts Club Tea Today Honqrs Opera Group Miss Mary Cryder and Miss Aileen Solomons will be hostesses at the tea this afternoon at the Arts Club of of verett the asur Assist- wives are asked to mee T and ant Secretary of the Mrs. Carl Schuneman Mrs. William Fitch home December Dr. Jane B. She 2018 R street, will be at home to Umversity of Mich igan women and their hushands’ on Sunday, December 4, from 4 to 6 o'clock. K will be 4:30 Kelley £t 10 after Washington given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. T. Arthur Smith and the principals in the Light Opera Co. at the President Theater, Mrs. N. E. Allender will preside at the tea table. Leo S. Rowe;|? {will come from New York in time for wife of the As :T MIEE. MARIA CLAUBEL, Elder o awgh{cz of {Irbe,‘ Amba,ssacioz of Frawce ands Mmee. Claudel M=s. FRANCIS WHITE, 9 sistant Secretary of State, sPendinq a ghort time at ot Springs Virginia. 1927—PART 2. MLLE REINE CLAUDEL 2d® M HENRI CLAUDEL G second daughter ancl only gon, [\ of {he Ambassador of France ancd Mmwme. GEOR e BARNETT, excutive chairman of the Washindlono Gitl Scouts campaign which opened Fridays Hospitality Marks Week (5] The Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Work, has as his guest in his apart- ment at Wardman Park Hotel Gov. Parks of ska, who arrived yester- 1 remain a ‘short time. The James J. Secretary of Labor and Mrs. Davis had as their guests for the Thanksgiving holidays M Eleanore V. Monohan, who turned to her home in San Francisco. Senator and Mrs. Hiram Bingham who are again in their apartment a 2633 Sixteenth street for the Winter, will have as their guests this week Mrs. Griswold and Miss Griswold, who White House the reception at the Thursday evening. Representative and Mrs. James M. Beck will have as their guest this weck the former’s sister, Miss Beck of Phil-! adelphia. | Representative I alton Moore of Virginia and the Misses Moore have closed their place near Fairfax and have taken an apartment in the To- ronto for the Winter, Representative and Mrs. Pratt have returned to V om their home in Highland and | {are again making their home at the| Mayflower, where they have an apart- | ment. Harcourt hington Y Mr. Jacob Gould Schurma l'nltod! | States Ambassador to Germany, has arrived at the Carlton for a stay of several weeks. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aviation, Mr, Edward P. Warner, and his sister, Miss Elizabeth Warner, were hosts at dinner last evening at the Wardman Park Hotel to ‘Assistant Secretary of War and Mrs. Hanford McNider and Comdr. and Mrs. Bruce Leighton, later taking their guests to the theater. The Assistant Secretary of Com- merce for Aviation and Mrs. William P. MacCracken, jr., had as their guest for a short time Mrs. John Brandon Guthrie, who has returned to her home in Wenetka. Mrs. Brewster, wife of Gen. Andre W. Brewster, has gone to New York, where she will spend several days and return later in the week. Mrs. Marshall Field, who has been seriously ill in London, is expected to sail from England the middle of Washington Official Folk Listed for Special Mention personal_ Notes Relating to Cabinet and Con- gressional Notables—Chronicles of Week in Capital's Society. Circles. and will come at once to Mrs, James W. Wadsworth, widow of the late Col. James W. Wadsworth, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Fletcher Harper, has ived at the E , where they have taken an Senatol ames W. Wads- h, jr. is occupying their town house. derick Freling- will return to Was| ton next Sunday and will their apartment at the May| They spent the past 10 day country home in Pennsyl open M 7 guest the Wardman Pa the weck end her_sister-in-law (Continued on Ninth Page, Mrs. Society pl;ns Benefit For Children's Hospital The rummage sale held annually by the board of managers of the Child Welfare Society for the benefit of the Children’s Hospital will open tomor- | cyiha row at 914 E street northwest, to con- | h tinue throughout the week. Mrs. Frank B. Noyes is honorary president of the board, and Mrs. Louls Lehr, president, has Jjust returned from Europe in order to assist at the sale. Mrs. Breckinridge Long, chair- man of the sale committee, will be as- sisted by Mrs. John Allen Dougherty, Mrs, Frank Letts, Mrs. Archibald Davis, Mrs. James F. Mitchell, Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney, Mrs. Charles R. Shepard, Mrs. J. Holabird Towne, Mrs, William Doeller, Mrs. John Thl- der, Mrs. A. Livingston Staveley, Mrs. Frank Hight, Mrs. Irwin Laughlin, Mrs, Eugene Meyer, jr., and Mrs. C. Mathews Dick. Mrs. Arthur O'Brien will have charge of the lunchroom on the sec- ond floor of the building. Members of her committee are: Mrs. John Rod- gers, Mrs Louis Titus, Mrs. Henry Miller and Miss Lydia Loring. Mrs. O'Brien has selected Miss Rosemary Griffin _to ~ be chairman of the debutante committee. The debutantes, including Mile. Reine Claudel, Miss Theodora Catalini, Miss Evelyn Walk- er, Miss Janet Phillips, Miss Lydia Archbold, Miss Helen Krauss and Miss Eleanor Hard, will act as hostesses each day at luncheon. e Ahmed Mouhtar Bey. Turkish Ambassador, Arrives in Capital | con to Present Credentials, Restoring His Nation to Friendly Basis With United States. S, > The Ambassador from the Turkish republic, who arrived in Washington during the past week has established temporary q Wardman Park Hotel with his_staff consisting of a ccllor and first and second al government, Ahmed Mouhtar Bey, presents his credentials to Presi- dent Coolidge this week, Turkey will be restored to the list of nations hold- ing friendly relations with the United n interval of 10 y and 9 months. It was in April, 191 that the Ottoman empire disappear from the diplomatic list issued month- v by the State Department. But there egular and somewhat s representation for three vears previous to the final break. The ast Ambassador sent by Constant 0f Zia Pasha, who om June, 1910, until the ame month, 1914, He was a dignified, rteous diplomat. His son Ibrahim Zia Bey had married Miss Ivy Bennett, voung” American art student in , and she was hostess at the sy and dispensed a generous pitality worthy of the traditions of the country. Rustem Bey was appointed ‘to succeed Youssouf in the Autumn of 1914, but he had been accused of too much activity in favor | of the Young Turk party and he spent but little time in Washington and had heen ahsent almost two years, when the charge d'affaires Abdul Haki Hussein Bey settled the affairs of the embassy and departed with his mother and secretaries for Constantinople in May, 1917. Ahmed Mouhtar Bey, the Ambas- sador sent by the President of the Turkish republic, Kemal Pasha, is a mellow scholar with the suave, finished manners, always associated with the statesman of the East. He was trained for diplomacy under the old masters of the Sublimk Porte and has held many posts of honor under the Sultan and under the republic. He is a ripe scholar and speaks a half dozen languages, but English is not among them. He appears to be an ardent champlon of the reforms instituted by the conquering Kemal Pasha. But despite the liberty now accorded to women under the new dispensation, the Ambassador did not bring any of his feminine kindred and if the em- bassy _is to be_established on accus- In Capital’s Social World Secretary and Mrs. Kellogg Hosts to Company of 50—Other Department Heads Entertain—S The Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg were hosts™ at dinner evenirlg entertaining a company of 50 in the Pan-American Union Building. The guests were seated at a table laid around the fountain in the patio with low mounds of yellow chrysanthemums and red roses at intervals about the table. The company included the Ambassa- dor of France and Mme. Claudel, Mile. Claudel, the Ambassador of Chile and Senora de Davila, the Ambassador of Belgium and Princess de Ligne, the Minister of the Dominican Republic inister of Nicaragua and Senora - Minister of the Serbs, roats and Sloven M. Voislav An- nievitch: the Minister of Salvador and Senora de Lima, Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, wife of the Secretary of War; Senatoir Frederick Hale, Senator and Mrs. Frederic M. Sackett, Representa- tive and Mrs. James M. Beck, the soiicitor general and Mrs. William DeWitt Mitchell, the director general of the Pan-American Union, Dr. Leo Rear Admiral Andrew T, ant Secretary of State Francis White, Assistant of State and M William Mrs. Adolph Caspar Mark Sullivan, tot Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Bigelow, Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis, Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, M E. H. G. Slater, . Lawrence Townsend, Mr: ter Douglas of St. Paul, Minn Anne Squire, Mr. J. Theodor riner, Mr. Ralph H. 8. Hill, Mr. Hugh Campbell Wallace and Mr. Alan S. Rogers. The Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg will be guests at dinner Sun- day, December 11, of the Minister of Venezuela and de Grisanti, who will also have as guests the Min- ister of War and Marine of Venezuela and Senora de Jimenez Redolledo and some foreign ministers and high offi- cials of the Army and Marine Corps. The Secretary of War and Mrs. Dwight F. Davis will entertain at dinner January 13 for their debutante daughter, Miss Alice Davis. The Postmaster General and Mrs. Harry S. New will entertain a com- pany at dinner this evening in_honor of the Ambassador of Great Britain and Lady Isabella Howard. The Postmaster General and Mrs. New have as their guests in their charming home, Hemlock Hodge, at Edgemoor, for the week end Mrs. John Tomlinson Brush of New York. The Secretary of Labor and Mrs. James J. Davis will be the ranking guests at dinner this evening of Rep- resentative and Mrs. Fred A. Britten, who will entertain a company of 10 in their apartment at Wardman Park’}' Hotel. Senator and Mrs. Lawrence D, Ty son will entertain at dinner Friday evening preceding the performance of the Washington Opera Co. that eve- e pecial Events. ning, to which they will take their guests later. " Senator and Mrs. Tyson will have : as their guest over the week end their | daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles McGhee : Tyson of New York, who will arrive * Friday in time for the dinner party and the opera. Mrs. Tyson will be hostess at lunch- eon Monday, December 12, for her daughter-in-law. Senator Samuel M. Shortridge enter- tained Mr. and Mrs. Louis Titus and Miss Terese Rooney at dinner Satur- day eveping. at the Wardman Park Hotel. Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty, wife of the assistant solicitor of the Treas- ury, entertained informally at lunch- eon Friday i or of her daughter, Mrs. D. G. M v, at the Wardman Park Hotel. Mrs. Murray has come from her home in Grove City, Pa., to be the guest of her parents for a few | days. Brig. Gen. and Mrs. J. M. Kennedy 1 have as their guest. in their qnarters (Continued on Eleventh Page.) Engagements. to Wed In Record of Week Rev. Lewis Randolph Watson and Mrs. Watson announce the engag@ ment of their daughter, Anne Neville, to Dr. James Houston Hawfield. The wedding will take place later in the season. Mrs. Walter D. Nolan announces the engagement of her daughter, Elsie Marie, to Ensign John Goodman Blanche, jr.. U. S. N., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Blanche of St. Joseph, La. The wedding will take place the latter part of December. Mr. and Mrs. John Seward of Chevy Chasé, announce the engagement of their ‘daughter, Miss Elizabeth S ard, to Mr. Herbert H. Smitb of V cester, Mass. The wedding will taxe place in June. The engagement of Miss Edna Voronoff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Voronoff, to Mr. Norman C. Epstein of New York, has been announcea Miss Voronoff is secretary to Rep- resentative Sol Bloom of New York and a teacher of a class in the Conservative Synagogue of the Adath Israel, the classes of which are held in the Jewish Community Center. Miss Voronoff took up the work with this class after serving as superintendent of the Sunday school under the Coun- cil of Jewish Women. She has been a student of law for several years and very active among the Jewish Girl Scouts, having been among those to organize the first Jewish Girl Scout troop of this city. Mr."and Mrs. Louise Nelowich of 4604 Towa avenue northwest, have an- nounced the e of their daughter, Gertrude Isabelle, to Mr. Harry G. Greenberg of New York: City. The wedding will take place late in January.