Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1928, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, SOCIETY . (Contniued From Eighteenth Pa ‘her last evening in compliment to Mr.. and Mrs, Hamilton McCormick of Chi- cago, who are making a-visit at the Hotel Mayflower. | | | _ Miss Ruth Gullion, daughter of Maj. and Mrs. Allen Guliion, will entertain 4n her home this afternoon at a bridge- tea in honor of Mrs. T. Morgan Wat- lington, jr., who is visiting her parents, Col. and Mrs. Edgar T. Connolly, of | Silver Spring, Md. The company will | include Miss Jane Crosby, Miss Janey Murray, Miss Lilla La Garde, Miss Ade- laide Henry, Miss Mary Martha Wrenn, Miss Betty Ball, Miss Barbara King, Miss Jean Williams, Miss Edwina Mor- row, Miss Marie Williams, Miss Louise Hickmen, Miss Katharine Brown, Miss Sydney Williams, Miss Katharine More- head, Miss Prances Simonds, Miss Mar- jorie 8imonds, Mrs. Prank Hayne, Mrs. John Elmore, Mrs. Walter Porter, Mrs. | J. Harvey Patten and Mrs. Walter C.| Guilion, | Mrs. Thomas P. Cheeseborough. Jr., | end her young son have arrived to tpend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies. Mr. Cheeseborough will join his family here | for Christmas, [ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hamilton Funk have returned to their apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel where they will remain through the Pongressional | season. They have with them Mrs. Funk's son, Mr. Edward Bedell Morris, Their son, Mr. Benjamin F. Funk, will be with them over the holidays. | Col. George B. Comly, U. S. A., has | accepted the chairmanship of the floor comsmittee for the first annual midship- man and cadet ball, to be given on | Christmas eve, at the Mayflower Hotel, Capt. Alfred .Johnson, U. S. N., will represent the Navy as chairman. Oth on the committee are Capt. Leon D A Lieut. Henry Ang jeut. Orville Wright, U. S. A.; rtin J. Moran, U. S. A.; Lieut. | Douglas McNair, U. S. A.; Lieut. James C. White, U. S. A.; Capt. Joseph Staley, U.S. M. C.; Cadet John A. Berry, Cadet | Marshall S. Cater, Cadet Paul Clark, | Cadet William A. M. Morin, Midshi man Harold Bauer, Midshipman Doug- las Hammond, Midshipman Richard C. | D. Hunt, Midshipman MacDonald | Mains, Midshipman_William Robards, Midshipman J. F. Replogle and Mid: shipman John Tatom. Mr. and Mrs. Wade H. Ellis were hosts at a box party last evening at the performance of “The Beaux' Strata- gem,” which was a benefit for the| George Washington Universal Hospital. | Their guests were the Vice President- lect, Senator Charles Curtis; Senator and Mrs. George H. Moses, Senator and Mrs. James E. Watson, Senator and Mrs. Tasker L. Oddie, Representative John Q. Tilson, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, sister of and hostess for Senator Curtis, and Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose. Mrs. Frank C. Henry of 1845 Belmont Foad will observe two days at home in- formally in January—Wednesday, Janu- ary 2, and Wednesday, January 16. Miss Betty Wainwright Bull has re- turned from Smith College to spend the holidays with her parents, Col. and Mrs. H. T. Bull, in their apartment, at 2400 Sixteenth street. Col. and Mrs. Frederick W. Coleman were hosts at a beautifully appointed | buffet supper last evening in their home | in Edgemoor, Md. | Mr. and Mrs. William North Sturte- Want will entertain at dinner December 26, at the Chevy Chase Club, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. George Fulford, jr., of | oronto and Brockville, Ontario. There will be about 40 guests. . Mrs. DeFrees Critten will entertain | @t dinner for her granddaughter, Miss Mignon Sherley, on Saturday, at the Mayflower. Covers will be laid for 18. Mr. and Mrs. Cedric J. Priebe will be 1 hosts at a dinner dance this’evening in the palm court of the Mayflower ini compliment to Lieut. and Mrs. James E. Dyer. Their other guests will be Lieut. and Mrs. Junius L. Cotton, Miss Agnes O'Connor and Lieut. Apollo Soucek, United States Navy. Lieut. Dyer was awarded the Herbert Schiff memorial trophy by President Coolidge on Saturday at the Mayflower. Eighth Annual Polo Ball at Willard April 1. ‘The War Department Polo Club will give its eighth annual polo ball in the | ballroam of the Willard Hotel Eas!er! Monday, April 1, 1929. Started in 1921 by Gen. John J. Pershing, gen- eral of the Armies, and his aide, the Jate Maj. John G. Quekemeyer, the af- fair has. become one of the most bril- liant of the Capital's social season. Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, chief of staff of the Army, is to act as chair- man of the polo ball and will name his assistants shortly. Mr. and Mrs, Charlés Keene of 1708 frwenty-first street will have with them gor the Christmas holidays their son, Midshipman Charles Keene, jr., ‘who Enll come from the Naval Academy aturday. Mr. Keene will bring with him as guests for the period of their wvacation Midshipman Jack Kauffmann pnd Mr. Tom Foote. Mrs. Keene will give a tea for the boys Bunday afternoon, and the girls to as- sist.her are Miss Elizabeth Hume, Miss Engratia Freyer, Miss Jean Peeples, Miss Rahl Davies, Miss Anne Carter Greene, Miss Faith Phillips, Miss Eline Alexander, Miss Dorothy Dial and | pthers. Cadet R. Madison Miller of Riverside Military Academy, Gainesville, Ga.. will | arrive Tuesday to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. | fMiller, at 2923 Fourteenth street. Mrs. Alvin Dodd will entertain at @inner Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Eric Greenleaf are at | £he Presidential, having sold their home bbn Sixteenth street. Mrs. Andrew B, Graham has retumned | 4o her apartment in the Briarcliffe after # three-week stay in New York. Senorita Patricia Mencia y de Armas, | 0 has been visiting Miss Louise onkey in the ho ! |on Cshmead place, for her daughter, Mrs. Edmund Domer Rheem and Mrs. i Courtlandt Nixon. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Dennis left this morning for New York and will spend Christmas at the Hotel Plaza. Mrs, Erlebacher of the Hotel Roose- velt will sail from New York tomorrow on the S. S. Corinthia for South Amer- ica. Makes Debut | Yale Marionette Show At Y. W. C. A. December 27. The Yale Puppeteers are appearing in Washington at the Y. W. C. A. Auditorium on the afternoon and even- ing of December 27, under the auspices of the Montgomery County League of Women Voters, Mis. B. Ashley Leavell of Chevy Chase, chairman. Members of the committee are Mrs. Gllbert Grosvenor, Mrs. Eugene Steven: Mrs. A. B. Barber, Mrs. Paul Sleman, Mrs. Charles R. Mann, Mrs. W. C. Men- denhall, Mrs. Walter Johnson, Mrs. Latane Lewis and Miss Lavinia Engle. The Puppeteers are graduates of the Yale University Theater under Prof. George Pierce Baker. the company is Mrs. Harry Burnett, whe began his marionette work at the Uni- versity of Michigan, assisted by For- | man Brown. Among _the sponsors of the company are the Princess Bon Compagnie, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Mrs. Edsel Ford, Mrs. Atwater Kent, Mrs. Alexan- der Biddle and Mrs. Potter Palmer. Miss'C. A. Schneider entertained at luacheon to a party of ladies on Mon- day at the Willard. Miss Isabel Craig Bacon has returned from a visit to her home in Boston and is at her apartment at the Grace Dodge Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Waldon Fawcett will be hosts at a club dinner at the Arts Club Tuesday _evening, in honor of Mr. George Horton, the author and diplo- mat, and Mrs. Horton, who have taken up their residence in Washington after an absence of 20 years spent at Near Eastern posts. Following the dinner Mr. Horton will talk informally on the Tonian Isles, which will be the subject of his fifteenth book, soon to be pub- lished. Mrs. Ellis Logan will give a tea to the Columbia Heights Art Club at 1661 Crescent place Thursday at 5 o'clock, following_a special study of the 39 Ispahan Persian rugs of the William A. Clark collection at the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art. The Junior High School Teachers' Association held its third annual ban- quet at the Roosevelt Hotel Saturday, NINA GORE, Daughter of the blind former Senator from Oklahoma, Thomas P. Gore, re- | cently made her stage debut in “The ign of the Leopard.” Ralph Snowden Hill, in Georgetown, left yesterday for her home in Havana. | Mrs. Eldon P. King will entertain a | small company at bridge this afternoon in honor of Mrs. Harry Hening of Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. Alfred G. Brosseau of Green- wich, Conn.. president general, D, A. R., has returnéd to Washington, and is at the Willard, having come down for the costume bail of the League of Ameri- can Pen Women, to be held at the Wil- lard tonight. Mr. Clagett Bowie, class of 29, Prince- | ton, will come to Washington tomorrow | to spend the holidays with his parents, | Capt. and Mrs. William Bowie. Commissioner Mrs. Rolan Kidder Smith have been joined by their son, | r. R. K. Smith, jr, who has come from his studies at the Harvard Law : School for the C%u‘xs(mas holidays. guests present. As a pre-Christmas so- cial event it was a decided success. Mrs, Lester Walter is the president of the association. Mr. William J. Bissell of New York, business manager of the Rockefeller Foundation, is at the Grace Dodge Hotel for the week. X Edda Mussolini Feted. Mrs. Robert Yellott was hostess at tea yesterday afternoon in her home, Miss Virginia Yellott, in compliment to two of the season’s debutantes, Miss Lalla Harrison Lynn and Miss Eliza- | beth Powell Dunlop. | Mrs. Philip C. Kauffmann, Mrs. War- | ren J. Haines and Mrs. Herbert C. Sturhahn are additional patronesses for the performance of “Zuider Zee,” which| MASSUA, Eritrea, December 18 (#). the Princeton Triangle Club will give | —Edda Mussolini, daughter of the Thursday evening. {Italian premier, arrived here yesterday Mrs. Sturhahn will come from her [on the steamer Tevere en route to In- home in New York to visit her parents, |dia. Gov. Zoli showed her the sights Mr. and Mrs. David Lawrence, for the [made famous by the campaign of 1887 performance, and will assist Mrs. Law- |and she laid a wreath upon the monu- Tence at her tea Thursday for the|ment to the men who fell in the Dogali members of the Princeton Triangle engagement. At her departure she was Club. Others who will assist Mrs. |cheered by the whole populace. Lawrence are Mrs. John Kilpatrick, ASSORTED TEA ' SANDWICHES - 45¢ per dozen; $3.25 per hundred Also Sandwiches for all occasions THE PASTRY SHOP 1616 H St. N Met. 6939 CAPITOL FUR SHOP ‘A Timely A Capitol on all FUR SCARF « . . or a Capitol FUR COAT 7 \ Bill Folds, Letter Cas An opportunity that permits you pronounced- saving. included are Desk Sets, Flasks, Cup Photo _Frames, Handbags, Folds, Writing Cases, Key Cases, Dressing Cases, ete. o owill happily solve that all-im- portant, hard - to- ¢ h oose gift for her! A gift that will rightfully LEATHER assume the leading role on Christmas Day. {[Finest quality at a con- venient range in price. Charge Accounts Invited. CADITOL FUR™ JHOD Henderson's—Standard of esen 1208 G ST. .5505, T, est in The_director of | with over a hundred members and | = ———l——~.~__:.__...l ; C A - (eract from Normas letter Novelties, Handbags, choose gifts of excellent quality at a |YALE SOPHOMORE WEDS, | IS DROPPED FROM ROLLS Son of Minnesota Judge, Member; of 1931 Class, Is Automatically Retired as Student. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 18.— | Thomas L. Wheeler, Yale sophomore {and son of a St. Paul, Minn., judge, | was married on Saturday, it was learned |last night from students in his dormi- to1,, to Emalie Brest, a store clerk of |this’ city. The couple applied for a | marriage license last week and asked ! for a waiver of the five-day interval re- | quired by law. As all undergraduates who marry are is automatically through Lere. He entered Yale with the class of 1930, but was out for most of a year with a serious illness and dropped back to the class of 1931. He is a member of | Alpha Chi Rho Fraternit; MEMORIAL ASSURED. | Rockefeller, Jr., Contributes $50,- | 000 Toward French Fund. | NEW YORK, December 18 (#).—A gift of $50,000 from John D. Rockefeller, |Jr., toward the fund being raised to | complete a war memorial at Douamont, one of the Verdun forts, was announced last pight by the Right Rev. Charles Ginesty, Bishop of Verdun, before the sailed for home. on the liner Paris. . The bishop said the American public had responded so generously that it was assured the memorial project would go | forward now unhampered. MILL TOWN IS SOLD. Village, Almost Aband8ned, Purchased - by Floridian. PENSACOLA, Fla., December 18 (#). | —Muscogee, Fla., once a prosperous Ilumber mill town, including 100 vesi- dences, churches, schools and a lumber Is | mill, known here as Florida's “Deserted | Dy o€ Villege,” has been purchased by B. C. Davis of Defuniak Springs, Fla. Muscogee passed away when the lum- ber mill had consumed all available timber. When purchased yesterday by Mr. Davis the village had been almost completely abandoned. With the sale went 2,300 acres of land. The purchase price was not announced by the new owner. E. P. CLIFFORD DIES. Vice President of Bell Telephone | Laboratories Began at 17. NEW YORK, December 18 (#)—Ed- ward P. Clifford, vice president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, died of pneumonia at his home yesterday.” He was 53 years old. s Mr. Clifford went to work for the Western Electric Co. as an office boy when he was 17 years old. As vice president ‘of the laboratories he was responsible -for the administration of his general staff’s budget, said to| amount to more than $15,000,000 a year. | TUESDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1928. Children Cross Sea Alone. NEW YORK, December 18 (P).— Veronica Wolonin, 6, and her sister Anna, 5, have come from Poland all alone to join their father in Youngs- town, Ohio, whom they have not seen si.m‘:’! té:ey were infants. 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