Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1927, Page 18

SO SOC CIETY IETY e | The Secretary of War and Mrs. Davis to| Entertain for Their Debutante , Daughter This Evening. HE Secretary of War and Mrs. Dwight F. Davis will entertain at ner followed by dancing this evening in their home. on Twentieth street, for _their debutante daughter, Miss Alice Davis. There will be 80 guests for dinner and about 70 guests will join the company for the dancing. Dinner Party Last Night at Italian Embass; The Ambassador of Italy and Nobil Donna Antoinette de Martino enter- tained at dinner last evening at the embassy, when the guests were the Ambassador of Spain and Senora de Tadilla, Mgr. Marella, Mgr. Bernadetti, Don Lardone. Prof. Don Scalia, Padre Lucidi, Miss Hoyt, the secretary of the Ttalian embassy, gnor Leonardo Yitetti, and Comdr. Silvio Scaroni, air attache of the embassy T Ambassador and Nobil de Mar- tino will entertain the members of the embassy staff at dinner Christm: night and January 1. They will also be hosts at dinner January 31, ! honor of Signor Arturo Toscanini, for- mer conductor of La Scala Opera in Milan, Ttaly The Ambassador of RBelgium and Princess de Ligne were the guests in whose honor the United States consul general at Antwerp, Mr. George S. Messersmith, entert. last evening at the Cariton Hotel. The other guests were the Assistant Secre- | v of State and Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr and Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Layton of Wilmington. Representative and Mrs. John W. Summers of Washington will have as r guests for Christmas their two =ons and daughters-inlaw, Mr. and Mrs. Burks Summers and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Summers of Philadelphia, who will arrive today. Mrs. Elizabeth lisbury of Tampa., Fla.. mother of Mrs. Burks Summers will also be the guest of Representative and Mrs. Sum mers in their apartment at the Chas- tieton. Z“Representative and Mrs. Summers &nd their guests will be at home in formally Sunday evening. % Representative and Mrs. Clyde Kelly ned at dinner | velvet faced with a lighter shade of brown, and will carry a shower bouquet of sweetheart roses and sweet- y Selden will be the rand will wear a costume of Mrs. du_ Pont. The Miss Adelalde Douglas, Miss Norvell Munford and hemina du Pont of Wilmington, will_wear frocks fashioned similarly | to the other attendants, in a cham- | pagne rose chiffon. They will wear | golden brown hats faced with a lighter | shade of satin and will carry roses and sweetpeas. | | Lieut. Joseph W. Mullally will be | the best man and the ushers selected include Lieut. Dew W. El Rutledge _Tompkins, E Lieut. Ni 1 H. Sanders, Lieut. Maurice Lieut. Hillyer M. Loker and arden. jr. the ceremony. a small and that Lieut. C: | E. Browder | Lieut. Alex Thomas F. Following | reception for the wedding party Lieut. r | S | family will be held in the home of the | | bride’s mother. when th al couple | | will be assisted in receiving by Mrs Wrenn and Mrs. Jasperson. mother | |of the bridegroom. | Lieut. Jasperson and his bride will leave later in the day for a wedding | trip. the bride wearing a hlack broad- |} {cloth ensemble, trimmed with astra- | kan fur ana a small black hat. | Mr. and Mrs. C. Phillips Hill will| {entertain at a tea dance this after-| noon at the Mayflowes when | | they will present their Frances Montague Hill, to y. | Assisting Mrs. Hill will be Mrs. David A.-Reed, Mrs. Henry Wilder Keyes.| Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, Mrs.| | Corcoran Thom. George Barnett. | | Mrs. Henry F! Mrs. Louise S.| | Greene, Mrs. Harry Reade and Mrs. | Henry Suydam. | With the bud will be Miss Theodoria | Catalani. Miss Adelaide Henry. Miss Anna Jayne of Newport and Washing- ton. Miss Mary Louise Hilles of Balti-| more. Miss lona Hamilton, Miss |Jeannette Hume, Miss Ellen Peelle, Miss Lillian Latimer and Miss Anna Louise Abadie. | Miss Hill will wear a satin robe de vle trimmed with cream lace and a {small white satin rose with gold leaves | Miss Katherine Deming, {and their families, Mr. MISS FAITH ADAMS, Whose_parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. 1L honor last evening, debutante of this seasol entertaining at the Mayflower Hotel. Miss Adams is a Adams, gave a dinner dance in her Lina Macatee, Miss Helen ‘ mond, M i Johnson, S Barker, Mary V zaret Johnston, Miss Stuart | and Miss Margaret Olm: Mr. and Mrs. C. ‘Williamson hav as their guests at the Wardn Hotel for the holidays their daughters nd Mrs. W Hayne Ellis, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose of Kansas City, Mo.: Mr. and Mrs E. T. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Louis | A. Owsley, Miss Martha Ellis, Miss Doris Husted, Miss Helen Strauss, Miss Marie aves, Miss Violet Whelan, Miss Elizabeth Mohun, Miss | Fannie Dial, Miss Nancy Hamilton, Miss Margaret Bouve, Miss Jane | Love. Miss Lilla La Garde, Miss Sarah Anne Covington, Misa a Miss Comdr. Hussey, Mr. Victor Alfara, Mr. Snowden Ashford, Mr. Adair Chil- dress, Mr. Douglass MacArthur, Mr. Dudley Knox, Mr. Bowman MacAr- thur, Mr. James McKenney, Mr. Wil- liam Hard, Mr. Manville Kendrick, Mr. Henry Lansdon, Mr. Stanton Peelle, Mr. Edward Van Devanter, Mr. Merrill Clementson, Mr. Edwin Mar- tin, Mr. Gordon Minnigerode, Lieut. Strauss, Mr. Louis Peake and Mr. Larry Lehrbas. Mrs. Ernest M. Johnson from St. Paul, Minn., is spending the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Katherine J. Fenton, Wardman Park Hotel. Mrs. Johnson will return to her home be- fore the new year. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Emerson of Bev- erly, Mass., are at the Grace Dodge for a brief stay. Mrs. Frederick Augustus Nash of | Omaha, Nebr., accompanied by her daughter, Miss Emma Nash, and her on, Mr. Frederick Nash, who is a student at Yale, is in Washington for a few days, staying at the Mayflower. They attended the tea yesterday aft- ernoon given by Mrs. Frank T. Ham- fiton for her debutante daughter, Miss Exilona Hamilton. Mr. Winston Churchill and his son, Mr. John Churchill, are at the Ward- man Park Hotel for a few days en route South. Mr. John Churchill at- tends the Boston Institute of Tech- nology. Miss Anne Carter of Warrentdn, and Miss Hilda B. Dean of Win- er, Va., are guests at the Grace Dodge. Miss Ada Tanner and Miss Antoin- ette Tanner will leave teday for Grand Rapids, Mich., to spend the holidays with Mr. and Mrs, Willlam H. Ander- son. Mrs. Mary Hill, who has heen at her home at Tarrytown, N. Y., for several weeks, will return to the Carlton to- day, opening her apartment there for the Winter season. Miss Penelope Snow and Miss Maud Briggs Knowlin of Winchester, N. H. have arrived at the Grace Dodge Ho- tel to pass Christmas holidays. Mr. David L. Stone, jr., a student at the Hun Preparatory School at Princeton, N. J., is spending his vaca- tion in Washington with his father, Col. David L. Stone, Miss Jennie M. Tustin is spending Christmas with her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Calvin Dorsey, at Dor- lan, near Downingtown, Pa. Mrs. John Strawn of Uniontown, Pa., is spending a few days at the | Wardman Park Hotel. Prof. L. J. Rogers of Toronto in at | the Carlton for several days, visiting | Maj. and Mrs. Herbert H. White at is spending the holid. ents, Mr, and Mrs, | Northbrook Courts, Mrs. E. T. Menh ton, Mass, Dodge Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd i gave a Christmas party last ev in their home in Massachusetts | m of musle Igiven by Mr. ams, Miss Vil Harper, Miss Goldie Hutchins and Mr. Arthur Talbott. A supper was served after the program when the table appointments and decorations were in keeping with the season, the red and greens being used in other rooms, and a lighted Christmas tree in the house as well one on the lawn added much to the gala atmosphere, ne of Northamp Tme k Mr, Frank J. Victo Wash., will arrive next week to spe | the holiday season with Mr. Frank Goodman, Children’s Country Home Ball to Have Prize Novelty. Yach year a feature of the Christ- a8 ball given by the board of man- agers of the Children’s Country Home has been the sale of Christmas novel- ties by members of the debutante committee. And this year the prize novelty will be a pedigreed puppy, who will find a new owner among the guests at the ball, to he given at the Mayflower Hotel Monday evening. Miss Louise Spencer is chairman of the debutante committee and she will he assisted by Princess Elizabeth de Ligne, Miss Alice Davis beth Chilton, Counte: chenyi, Miss Theodora C. Katharine Carlisle, Miss Janet New- nella & Phillips, Miss Ellen Thoron, Miss Ev. and Miss Katharine Wilkins. Mrs. Alexander B. Legnre, presi- of the board, will cnicrtain a group of 24 of the vounger set at dinner at the Alibi Club preceding the [ bal. Alpha Chapter of the Theta Kappa | Epsilon Sorority will entertain at a {evening. This will be the sorority | Those arranging the dance include ! Miss Ellen Bresnahan, Miss Mary Cribben, Miss Hilda Coxen, Miss Mil- Miss Lillian Krohr, Miss Elsie Notter, is a guest at the Grace | ing | Miss Eliza- | atalini, Miss | bold, Miss Virginia Peters, Miss Janet | Ivn Waiker, Miss Katharine Whitaker | nee at the Club St. Marks Monday | last closed socia) event of the season. | |dred Crouch, Miss Florence Keller, | la, Fla.: Second . from Quantic« 2 and Second *"Roherts from 2d RBrig ‘alif. or has resigred J. Brennan w MARINE CORPS CHANGES. | :shm,.- Made in c:;t; and Nearby Posts. [ Ccapt 3K B a J“irs Jdeut, ] Morse has heen trans- | ook . to Chi- | cago: Maj. L. W. Hoyt from Chicago | to Nicaraguan National Guard de | tachment; Capt. J. D. McLean from Quantico to navy yard, Washington, | D. Capt. E. B. Hammond from !CJ‘IIHIHN) to San Francisco; Capt. F. | R. Armstead from San Francisco to| | 3rda Brigade, China: Capt. wW. W. Rogers from Quantico to 5 | Capt. W, to naval hospital, Charleston, & | Capt. J. B. Neill, jr, and 'Secol LLieuts, 1. Bliesener, R. G. FRKM;.‘ J T J.| from | Map Em | ferred from Quantico, Va., ‘ As Christmas Day Draws Near—— on ERLEBACHER'S GIFT AVENUE T HE wide variety of original, imported gift pieces assembled for the convenience of “eleventh-hour” selection you’ll find an appreci- ated help, too, to slender purses. (Continued_on_Nineteenth Page) _ | Hundreds of Imported Gift Articles IMPORTED 'VASES CIGARETTE CASES JEWEL CASES VANITIES COSTUME ASH TRAYS HUMIDORS POWDER BOXES FLOWER BOUTON- NIERES ill entertain a dinger party at the jand carry pink orchids. W, Chalmers of Iiverton, N. J.. and | hodon e Hin "Amme Min | thelr apartment. He will return to HOLDERS FIORET COMPACTS JEWELRY jub St. Marks tonight in honor of | iss Dorris Husted, who is at the | rs. George | Mr. William | lementson, Harvard '23. and Mr. Mer- Bl Clementson, are with them for the | Bolidays and will be present at the | dinner. : Representative and Mrs. Fred A. zfiuen entertained & company of 14 dinner last evening jn compliment to Mrs. Townsend McKaever of Chi- €ago, who is the guest of Senator and Birs. Tasker L. Oddie. - Representative and Mrs. Britten re- turned earlier in the week fromn a short visit in their Chicago home. ; Representative and Mrs. Adam Wyant have with them at the Ward- an Park Hotel Mrs. Wyant ter, rs. H. D. Miller of San Francisco, 2pd her sons, Lucien and Frank. : Representative and Mrs. Morton D. | Hull of Illinois, who have taken an | apartment at the Mayflower for the | ‘Winter, will spend the Christmas holi- days in Chicago. | Mile. Maimie Sge, daughter of the Minister of China and Mme. Sze, was among the guests at dinner last even- ing of Dr. and Mrs. Clarence Stillweil re, whé entertained in their Balti- more home for their daughter, Miss ¥rances Elizabeth Gore. The company Ifzr attended the performance of “Napoleon Passes” given by the Princeton Triangle Club. Among others in the company were Miss Ruth §carlett, Mr. Norman Gardiner, Mr. Thomas P. Perkins, jr., and Mr. Willard Rouse of Easton, Md. ‘Comdr. and Mrs. *Charles M. O. Bunker are entertaining a house party oyer the holidays, having as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer Hall and . Charles Webb of New York, Mr. Garrett Bunker, son of the hosts, back foom Hotchkiss School, and Mr. Edward Ingoll and Mr. Robert Ingoll, classmates of Mr. Bunker. :Comdr. and Mrs. Bunker gave a | dance for their guests last evening. ‘| Leonard A Miss C. Hellen Tt delaide Rrown and Miss nson, who have spent many Winters in Washington. have returned to this country from Europe and are spending this Winter oronado Beach, Calif. T Mrs. John Allan Dougherty enter- tained at dinner in her home on R street last evening having as guests the Minister of Finland, Mr. Axel m: the charge d'affaires of Guatamala, Senor Don Julio Mon- tano Novella: Admiral and Mrs. Wil- lard, Miss Margaret Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Sanders, Brig. Gen. Wil- liam E. Horton and Mr. Ramses Chaf- fey, first secretary of the Egyptian| legation. Mrs. Dougherty has with her her nephews, Mr. Allan Edward McGraw and Mr. John McGraw of Boston, who will be here through the holidays. | Mrs. Jessie Emerson Moffat and her mother, Mrs. E. R. Emerson, will go to New York today to remain a fort-| night in the latter’s home at 22 West Ninth street. i Mrs. L. W. Curtin is at the Wardman | Park Hotel for a few days en route |to Boston. where she will join Lieut. |Curtin, U. S. N., for the holidays.| Lieut. Curtin has just been transferre from Norfolk to duty on the aeroplane carrier, the Lexington. Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Macatee | | have with them for the holidays their | {two daughters, Mixs Mar axton | Macatee, who is a student at Smith | |College, ‘and Miss Gertrude Macatee, | |from Bryn Mawr. { | Misses Macatee entertained at| luncheon today at Club St. Marks | a number of their friends among the debutante and college groups of young people. _Among the guests were Miss Lillian Latimer, Miss Lilla LaGarde, Miss Harriet Whitford, Miss Eliza- beth Rayard, Miss Emily Ecker, Miss Schuyler Dunlop; Miss Exilona Hamil- | ton, Miss Caroline Wilcox, Misx Sophie Snyder, Miss Susanne Bradley. Miss Adele Varela, Miss Margaret Bouve, Miss Florence Beale, Mixs Isa- | | Crounse are spending several weeks | tie City. am Lloyd Linton of New . who will arrive tod Mr. and Mrs. ugene R. Woodson have issued cards for a tea da Tuesday afternoon at the Mayflower for their daughter, Miss Jean Wood. son. Their guests will number 30. Mr. and Mrs. William Livingston at the Marlborough-Blenheim, Atlan- They will return to ‘v\'ds)\»‘ ington about January 15. | | Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Clagett will entertain a company of 20 youn people at the supper dance at the | Wardman Park Hotel this evening for | | their daughter, Miss Frances Clagett Mr. Dyer of New York. | Mrs. Price Whitaker announces the | engagement of her daughter, Kathe- rine, to Mr. Elisha Dyer of New York and Long Island, xon of Mr. and Mrs George Rathbone Dyer of New York The wedding will take place in Feb. ruary. Miss Whitaker was presented to so. clety yesterday afternoon at a tea, which her mother and Mrs. Montgom: ery Blair gave for her. The announce- ment of the engagement was made during the reception hours. She is | the first of this season's debutantes to announce her engagement. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Adams gave a dinner dance last evening at the May- flower for their daughter, Miss Faith Adams. Their guests included Mr. Justice James C. McReynolds, Rear | Admiral and Mrs. R. H. Leigh, Rear Admiral Andrew T. Long, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John A. Hull, Capt. and Mrs. Chastleton Hotel 16 at R N. 10000 Special Christmas | lor, Dorothy Hill, ! Miss Rebecea Davidson, Miss Anna Louise Abadie, Miss Florence Mar- latt, Miss Alice Abadie, Miss Adelaide | Henry, Miss Harriet Whitford, Miss Florence Keys, Miss Frances Hill, | Miss Anna hurst, Miss Exilona | Hamilton, Miss Edwina Morrow, Miss | Lillian Latimer, Miss Lydia Archbold, | Miss Ellen Peelle, Miss Imogene Tay- | Miss Florence Wetherill, Miss | Hester Ann Le Fevre, Mr. Walter | Rufenacht, Mr. William Mann, Lieut. | Rowan, Mr. Phillip Young, Mr. Ches- ter Lockwood, Mr. Emmons Smith, | ‘Toronto immediately after Christmas. Mr. Harry C. 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