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SO CIETY. . THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, "D. C.; JANUARY - 20, ‘Charity Ball Event of Note In New York Brilliant Affair Scheduled for Tucsda); Evening Held of Predominating Importance——Nuptial Engagcment Recently Announced. NEW YORK, January 19.—Two of fhe biggest events of the season 'will take place here next week. On Tuesday night the seventy-second anniversary Charity Ball, that social institution of New York society, will be held at the Ritz-Carlton. The Beaux Arts Ball, with its elaborate spectacle “Napoleon,” is to be presented Friday night at the Hotel Astor. Both of these affairs have been in preparation for several months and are sponsored by a large number of prominent folk. Plans for the Charity Ball, which are more extensive this year than ever be- fore, have been completed by Mrs. Francis Meredith Blagden, president of the ball, and her committee. The chairman of the floor commit- tee, George Henry Warren, jr., has an- nounced the members of his executive staff. They are George M. Sullivan, honorary chairman; Maj. Henry Gansevoort Sanford, advisory chair- man; Maj. James C. McGuire, first vice chairman; Col. John F. Daniell, Col. Arthur E. Schermerhorn, Col. Charles Eliot Warren, Col. Francis L. V. Hop- pin, Gen. De Witt Clinton Falls and . George W. Burleigh, vice chair- men. The Charity Ball will-be given to as- @ist the funds of the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital as it has done since its inception in the middle of the last century. Beaux Arts Ball Elaborately Planned. Never before have the leaders of the ‘Beaux Arts Ball attempted such a bril- liant affair as will be given Friday night. There will be approximately 500 | in the casts of the episodes which will | ton has announced the engagement. of depict the period of the greatness of France during Napoleon's reign. The pageant, which precedes the #lance, will be divided into distinct his- torical 'spectacles, beginning with the .dying glories of the court of Louis XVI, “ollowed by the Revolution, the Guillo- Atine, the Young Artillery Officer, the Di- Fectoire, the Napoleonic Campaigns, taly, the Battle of the Pyramids, the urning of Moscow, illustrating the uilding of the Empire, and culminating n the gorgeous ensemble, the Corona- dion of the Emperor, the triumph of #he Emperor and his Queen, Josephine. Among the box holders announced by AVhitney Warren, chairman of the gen- Yeral committee, are: Mrs. Whitney arren, Mrs. Kenneth M. Murchison, rs. William_ Starr Miller, Mrs. Wil- iam Adams Delano, Mrs. James Nor- an Hill, Mrs. Graham Fair Vander- ilt, Mrs. Lucy Work Hewitt, Mrs. scar Cooper, Mrs. H. Worthington ull, Mrs. John Mead Howells, Mrs. Cass Gilbert, Mrs. Frederick Allen, Mrs. Lewis Cass Ledyard, Chester H. Aldrich, Walter P. Chrysler, Thomas Gillespie. Also Mrs. Willilam L. Harkness, Mrs. . Oakley Vander Poel, Mrs. Ernest F. *Tyler, Mrs. Edward F. Hutton, Mrs. Pames H. Snowden, Mrs. Ben Ali Hag- ‘gin, Mrs. Frederic A. De Peyster, Mrs. "];%dnc‘rdu Bertelli and Lady J. White Another interesting affair which will Jbe crowded into next week is the benefit erformance for the Junior League y Shelter which has been an- mounced for next Thursday. This will be a presentation of “Serena Blandish” ®ut the Morosco Theater. It is under the direction of the League Leaders. A large number of society people have been engaged for the affair. The new shelter will be housed on #he fifth floor of the new clubhouse at 221-241 East Seventy-first street and will be the only shelter for infants from ten days to one year old in the city. |l It will take care of 25 children at a time and will offer temporary and free maintenance to a mother actually il or to a home broken up temporarily. The shelter board, led by the follow- #ng officers—Mrs. Carl Gray, chairman; Society World | Mrs. John Foster Dulles, vice chairman; Miss Leonie Fuller, treasurer, and Miss | Ruth Sterling, secretary—is maintain- | ing 20 children in boarding homes in | the Bronx. The second of the smart dancing par- ties sponsored by the Bachelor Girls was held last night at the Club Plaza. | A special program of entertainment was offered at midnight. The executive committee in charge of the affair was | composed of the Misses Kay Jordan, Edith White, Marjorie Cleveland, Bea- | trice Bixby, Charlotte Guthrie, Char- | lotte Boettger, Margot Boettger and | Margot Converse. Betrothals Forecast Weddings in High Life. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Blenheim of Egham, Surrey, England, have an- nounced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Edith Blenheim, to Eben Richards, jr. Miss Blenheim attended Pembroke College, Westerham, Kent, England. Mr. Richards is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Eben Richards of Tuxedo Park | and a grandson of the late Henry Clay | Pierce. He attended the Browning School in this city and was graduated from Harvard in 1919. In the war he served as a second lieutenant of Infan- try as aids to Brig. Gen. William V. Judson, who was in command of the | New York port of embarkation. He is | a member of the Tuxedo and Harvard | Clubs. Mr. Richards and his fiancee are with Mr. and Mrs. Richards in Tuxedo. The | wedding will probably take place in the | Spring. Mrs. F. Lothrop Ames of North Eas- her daughter, Miss - Mary Callender Ames, to Howard Gardiner Cushing, son of Mrs. J. Denison Sawyer of 121 East Seventieth street and of the late Howard G. Cushing. Mrs. Ames is liv- ing this Winter at 1010 Fifth avenue. Mr., Cushing was graduated from Harvard last June. He is a member of the A D Club of Cambridge and of the Knickerbocker and Harvard Clubs of this city. o Mr. and Mrs. John Sherman Hoyt have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Helen Phelps Hoyt, to Dr. Byron Stookey, son of the late Dr. Lyman Stookey and Mrs. Stookey of Belleville, Ill, and Los Angeles, Miss Hoyt is a granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Hoyt and of Mrs. Stokes, of this city, and the late Anson Phelps Stokes. She is a graduate of the Brearley School and Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Stookey, who was graduated from the University of Southern California and Harvard Medical School, is assistant professor of neurology and neurological surgery at Columbia and assistant pro- fessor of clinical surgery at Cornell. During the war he served as captain in the British army from 1914 to 1916 and as major in the United States Army from 1916 to 1919. Bride-Elect Names Her Wedding Attendants. Miss Virginia McClellan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George R. McClellan of 755 Park avenue, has chosen her at- tendants for her marriage to Winslow G. Tuttle, son of Mrs. Frank Day Tuttle, February 7, at Sherry’s. Mrs. Thomas F. Joyce, jr., will be her sister's matron of honor, and the bridesmaids will be the Misses Margaret Stokes, Jean Mac- Kelvie, Dora Hotchkiss, Angela and Mary Atwell and Miriam Humphreys of Philadelphia, a cousin of Miss McClel- an Frank Day Tuttle will be best man for his brother.. The ushers will include Richard Turner, Edward Austin, Bruce Lachlan, Clinch Pate, Thomas J. Joyce, jr., ‘Theodore T. Everitt and Ned Carlton. lVicc President and Mrs. Dawes Guests Of Honor at Dinner (Continued From First Page.) ni their wives will be the guests of onor. Mrs. Deneen to Entertain #n Honor of Mrs. Glenn. Mrs. Charles 8. Deneen will entertain Bt luncheon in honor of Mrs. Otis F. Glenn on February 25 in the Chinese soom of the Mayflower. On the same svening Senator and Mrs. Deneen will Pe hosts at dinner at the Mayflower in gompliment to the members of the Illi- Mois delegation and their wives. Senator and Mrs. Walter E. Edge will ve guests lunching informally with em today. Mrs. Edward Everett Gann was the est of honor at a luncheon given by | JMrs. James L. Karrick yesterday, in the ‘Chinese room of the Mayflower, when covers were laid for 54. Mrs. Karrick's pther guests included Mrs. George Sutherland, Mrs. Jardine, Mrs. Lee S. fOverman, Mrs. William H. King, Mrs. #Charles H. Robb, Mrs. J. A. VanOrsdel, rs. Wendell P. Stafford, Mrs. Allen T. eadway, Mrs. William Rodenberg, rs. Wallace White, Mrs. S. Wallace | mpsey, Mrs. Henry Allen Cooper, | ‘Mrs. Homer HMoch, Mrs. Willilam A.| Ayres, Mrs. Merritte W. Ireland, Mrs. 8. F. Cheatham, Mrs. Willlam D. ©onnor, Mrs. Herbert Crosby, Mrs. James E. Fechet, Mrs, William J. Nicholson, Mrs, W. H. Carter, Mme. Won Lewinski, Mrs. Philip Campbell, Mrs. Demarest Lloyd, Mrs. J. Holabird *Towne and her mother Mrs. Holabird; Mrs. Tyree Rivers, Mrs. Parker West, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose, Mrs. ‘Wade Ellis, Mrs. Frank Mondell, Mrs, Henry Alvah Strong, Mrs. C. H. Barth, Mrs. Jerome G. Pillow, Mrs. Robert Allen, Miss Alice Averill of Stockbridge, [Mass.; Mrs. George Harris Smith, Mrs, ‘Kendall and her guest Mrs. Bacon, Mrs. ¥. C. Dodd, Mrs. Harley Peyton Wilson, Mrs. Lucy Wilder Morris, Miss Mary fTemple, Mrs. Shares, Mrs. Alice Pome- woy, Mrs. George V. Triplett, Mrs. Har- wey Delano, Mrs. B, R. Alexander, Mrs. {Frederick Keliand and Mrs. Pauline Hanson. Mrs. Karrick’s guests were seated at @& rectangular-shaped table, arranged with a sunken garden in the center, with quantities of palms and ferns ‘banked with cyclamen and pussy wil- §ows around a small fountain. Pink snapdragons and sweetpeas were used with pink shaded candles as the table gecoration, The secretary to the President and ‘Mrs. Everett Sanders will entertain at Juncheon today in honor of Dr. G. 8. Hanes and Mr. S. P. Jones of Louis- vVille at the Mayflower. Dr. Hanes and Mr. Jones are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sanders at the Mayflower. The Undersecretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Ogden L. Mills have issued invitations for a dinner Friday evening, Saturday at the Congressional Country Club in honor of the secretary to the President and Mrs. Everett Sanders. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock was hostess to a compnn{not 33 at dinner last eve- ning, entertaining in her home on Scott » 42 ANAVEIEBS syt " Upper right: Mme. Marc Peter, wife of most important patronesses for the Bal ta, one of the artists to judge costumes. HARRIS & EWING Upper left: Senora de Encisco, wife of the charge d’affaires of the Argen- tine embassy, a sponsor for the Arts Club Ball the Willard, Monday night. the Minister of Switzerland, one of the Boheme. Lower: Mrs. Ernest Peixot- at bridge Thursday in her home in Georgetown in honor of Mrs. George T. Maxwell of New York and Paris. Mrs. John A. Huston entertained sev- eral friends at a beautifully appointed luncheon at her home, 616 Upshur street, Wednesday, when the honor guests were Mrs. Joseph Leibert and Mrs. William Alf. Mrs. George Ferris entertained a few friends at dinner last evening at the ‘Wardman Park Hotel. Miss Mary E. Coulson entertained at luncheon at the Woman’s National Demoeratic Club last Tuesday in_com- pliment to Mr. Henry B. Snell of Phila- delphia, the prominent artist whose landscapes hang in the Corcoran Art Gallery. Her sister, Miss Margaret Coulson, also was in the party. e and Specidl Social Events Noted In Official Circles (Continued From First Page.) leave Washington Tuesday for Panama. She will be accompanied by Miss Anna Circle. The dinner was planned in honor of the Italian Ambassador and Nobil Donna Antoinette de Martino, who were obliged to withdraw from social engagements o to the period of mourning of the It n court be- cause of the death of Prince Nicholas of Russia. Maj. and Mrs. Parker W. West will entertain at dinner Friday evening. February 1, in honor of Senator and Mrs. John B. Kendrick. Maj. and Mrs. West will be hosts at dinner Wednesday evening. in honor of the Ambassador of Mexico and Senora de Tellez. Mr. and Mrs. George T. $ummerlin entertained a small party at the Club Chantecler supper dance Friday night. Mr. F. Marion Law was host to a party of 10 at the Club Chantecler supper dance Friday night. Mrs. Charles P. Keyser entertained a company at supper recently in honor of Mrs. Roy Davis of Columbia, Mo., wife of the United States Minister to Costa Rica. Her guests were Mrs. Joe J. Manlove, Mrs. John Cochran, Mrs. James L. Baity, Mrs. Eugene An- drew, Mrs. George Puller, Mrs. Otis J. Rogers and Mrs. Edward Hays. Baroness von Below Hostess at Luncheon. Baroness von Below entertained at luncheon yesterday in honor of Prin- cess Odescalchi. The other guests were Princess Sturdza, wife of the counselor of the Rumanian legation; Mme. Al- faro, wife of the Minister of Panama; Mrs. Joseph Strauss, and Mrs. Camp- bell Turner. Mrs. Charles J. Williamson will en- fertain Friday at a luncheon at the ‘Wardman Park Hotel. Mrs. C. H. Gillette entertained a small company at dinner last evening at the Wardman Park Hotel. Dr. S. M. Becker entertained six guests at the supper dance last evening at the Wardman Park Hotel. During his visit in Washington last week, Mr. Beniamino Gigli, the tenor, was the guest of honor at a dinner given by Mr. Daniel J. O'Brien on Wed- nesday evening in the presidential suite of the Mayflower. Those invited to meet Mr. Gigli were Senator Robert F, Wag- | ner of New York, Mr. Joseph P. Tum- ulty, Judge Charles Hatfield, Mr. Wal- ter T. Prendergast of the State Depart- ment, Mr. William E. Leahy and Mr. Ralph Pollio. Mr. Gigli’s accompanist and manager, Mr. Miguel Sandoval, and Amadeo Grossi also were present. Mr. Walter Penfield will entertain at a dinner in the Florentine room of the Wardman Park Hotel on Wednesday. ‘There will be about 18 guests. Mrs. James C. McSherry entertained Martin of Missourl. Mrs. John Marshall, wife of the As- sistant Attorney General, who has been passing the week in West Virginia, will return this evening to her apartment in the Wardman Park Hotel. Miss Hester Ann Lefevre has gone to Philadelphia to visit Mr. and Mrs, Sid- ney Stillman at Chestnut Hill. She will make other visits before returning to Washington. Mrs, Samuel Robb Ireland has closed her apartment at the Martinique Hotel on Bixteenth street and sailed yester- day on the S. S. Virginia by way of the Canal for California, where she will remain through the early Spring. Mrs. Robert Phillips of Paducah, Ky., is expected in Washington very shortly and will be the guest of Mrs, Geneva Dunham at her apartment, 1222 Sixteenth street. B Capt. and Mrs. Brown Soon On Way to Philippines. Capt. and Mrs. Arthur Edmon Brown and their small daughter, Helen Brittain, arrived in Washington last week after having passed a month a&s guests of Capt. Brown's parents in Erle, Pa. Capt. Brown and his family are en route to the Philippines and will sail from New York February 16. They are now guests of Mrs. Brown's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Montgomery, in Georgetown. Mr, and Mrs. Montgomery entertained at dinner Wednesday evening when their guests included Mr. and Mrs. John M. Beavers, Mr. and Mrs. Mar- shall Wrenn, Capt. and Mrs. Brown, Miss Helen Montgomery and Mr. Mar- shall Wrenn, jr. Mrs. Winthrop Murray Crane is visit- ing her sister, Miss Mabel Boardman. Mr. and Mrs. William Stuart Rey- burn of Aiken, S. C., will be guests at the Mayflower for several days before leaving for New York; preparatory to sailing for Europe. Mr. Reyburn is a former member of the Lower House of Congress from Pennsylvania. v The United States Ambgssador to Spain and Mrs. Ogden H. Hammond, accompanied by their daughters, Miss Mary Hammond and Miss Millicent Hammond, arrived in Washington yes- terday and will be guests at the May- flower for a week. 3 Gen. and Mrs. James G. Harbord of New York are in Washington, stays ing at the Mayflower. Dr. Maurtua of Peru Recovering From Iliness. Dr. Victor M. Maurtua, Peruvian dele- gate to the International Conference of American States on Conciliation and Arbitration, joined Mme. Maurtua yes- terday at the Mayflower, where they will remain for about a week before leaving for Cuba. Dr. Maurtua was taken ill during the conference and has been a | patient at Garfield Hospital for several | wegks. Mme. Maurice Laur of Paris is mak- ing a brief visit in Washington, staying at the Mayflower, on her way to South Carolina, where she will be the guest of Miss Kate Gleason at her Winter home there. Mme. Laur spent a short time with Miss Gleason in Rochester, upon her arrival in this country last month, and since that time she has been with her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Jay, in New York Cit Prof. Marlan P. Whitney of Vassar College spent the week as a guest at the Woman’s National Democratic Club. Miss Whitney is the daughter of the late Prof. Willlam Dwight Whitney, the | noted philologist of Yale University. She was a delegate to the Fourth Na- tional Conference on the Cause and Cure of War. Mrs. John Lisle of Philadelphia, who is now in Washington, has been joined at the Mayflower by Miss Victoria White of Pittsburgh, who is on her way to Charleston, 8. C., for an indefinite stay. Mr and Mrs. Laurence Wilder have returned to their home, at 2306 Massa- chusetts avenue, and have as guests Comdr. and Mrs. Herbert Hartley of Opelika, Ala. Senor Oscar Blanco Soon to Take Up Duty At Chilean Embassy (Continued From First Page.) coming will complete the staff of the Ambassador, Senor Carlos Davila. New Naval Appointee in Embassy List. A new naval attache has recently been named by the Chilean authorities to succeed Lieut. Comdr. Holger, who during the past Summer was transferred to active sea duty. The new attache was expected to sail with his family on the boat with Senor Blanco, but, being detained, he is not now expected until the end of February, Comdr. and Mrs. Holger were favorites in Washington society. Their young son, born here during their residence on Massachusetts avenue, is pow with Mrs, Holger's par- ents in Vino del Mar, a beautiful little city of Chile, where the child’s parents were married some four years ago. Senor Ramon de Lartundo, who spent. the past three months as commercial secretary of the embassy, sailed for Valparaiso last week. He is an assistant editor of one of Santiago’s most in- 1215 G St. Washington’s Importing Furrier Main 8663 LAST TEN DAYS OF OUR GREATEST JANUARY FUR SALE! We have sold more Fur Garments during the period of this Frank. 9285 fluential and widely read dailies and he came to Washington through the good offices of the foreign office to make a study at first hand of various indus- trial and trade conditions. He was fillven the rank of commercial secretary order to make his investigations pos- sible in the brief time at his disposal. He and Senora Lartundo had a pleas- ant apartment at the Fairfax, where several members of the Chilean embassy make their home, and they were active in social life during the opening of the official season. Senora Lartundo was before her marriage Senorita Haydee Cassussus of Santiago. The commercial attache of the Chilean embassy, Senor Carlos H. Lee, makes his home in New York City, but with his wife, who is partly a daughter of this republic, Senora Nelly Wilson Lee, frequently comes to Washington. It is pot the present intention to create the office of commercial secretary at the Chilean embassy. Such is a rather rare official in the large resident corps and held for the moment only by Mr. Clearance Sale of All Fur Coats flJanuary Reductions under- price every FUR COAT. and NECKPIECE remaining in stock! Gratif own a handsome fur coat now, while STANTIAL SAVINGS are available. Excell make prompt action your rule. 'y your ambition . to 1929—PART 3. PATRONESSES FOR THE BAL BOHEME OF THE ARTS CLUB UNDER WOOQD Leander McCormick Goodhart of the British embassy and Mr. Merchant Ma- | honey of the Canadian legation. Nearly | all the major diplomatic establishments | have. commercial attaches, but only | three have commercial counselors, Sir | John Broderick of the British embassy, | M. Witold Wankowicz of the Polish and |M. Gustaf Weidel of the Swedish | legations. | Senor Blanco's appointment as coun- selor of the Chilean embassy results in establishing the fact that a large ' number of such diplomats who rank in importance immediately after the am- bassador or minister are bachelors, in- cluding Mr. Ronald Ian Campbell of the British, Count Sartiges of the French, Count Alberta M. Marchetti of the Italian, Mr. Robert Silvercruys of the Belgian and Senor Mariano de Amoedo of the Spanish embassies and M. Stanislaw Lepkowski of the Polish. | M. L. G. van Hoorn of the Netherlands, | M. Angelo Anninos of the Greek and M. P. V. G. Assarsson of the Swedish legations. smart neck[)iece or, January’s -SUB- ent selection if . you RESORTS.’ Community Drama Guild Winning Popular Favor ‘Theater parties for the first produc- tion by the Community Drama Guild of ‘Washington are proving popular, and the audience for the two presentations of “The Dover Road” Wednesday and Thursday nights of this week, January 23 and 24, will include many prominent men and women of Capital City. Both performances will take place at McKinley Auditorium, which will be the scene this season of most of the activities of the Drama Guild. Commissioner and Mrs. Proctor H. Dougherty will attend Thursday night and Commissioner and Mrs. Sidney Taliaferro on Wednesday night. Sena- tor and Mrs. William H. King and Rep- resentative A. J. Griffith will also be present on Wednesday. Others who will attend the play Wednesday, many of whom will entertain parties, include Judge Mary O'Toole, Mr. and Mrs. Cuno H. Rudolph, Dr. and Mrs. Frank Ballou, Maj. and Mrs. Carey H. Brown, Dr. and Mrs. De Witt C. Croissant, Mrs. James Carroll Frazer, Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Heidel, Mrs, | Grace Ross Chamberlin, Mr. and_Mrs. | Walter Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac | Gans, Mr. Henry Gilligan, Miss Sibyl | Baker, Mr and Mrs. Allan Davis, Dr. and Mrs. John Ryan Devereux, Miss Bess Davis Schreiner, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ashbrook, Mr. Frederic William Wile, Admiral and Mrs. Willlam D. Leahy, Rev. James E. Freeman, D. D.; Mrs. Alvin Dodd, Mr. and Mrs. Fulton Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Henry K. Bush- Brown. Also Gen. and Mrs. Harry Taylor, Gen. and Mrs. Herbert Deakyne, Col. and Mrs. John Otto Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tompkins, Capt. and Mrs. W. D. H. Riley, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Sharpe, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Peters, Mr. W. C. Miller, Mrs. Howard Nyman, Mr. John D. Long, Comdr. C. T. Jewell, Mr. Prank Baer, Miss Katherine Riggs, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Boss, Capt. and Mrs. Clay Anderson, Mr. and Mrs, Franklin Jones, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Dris- coll, Mr. Melvin Hildreth, Mr. Russell Burchard, Mr. Charles H. Hillegist and Miss Caroline Lile. . D.AR. Party Pa:o;:sses Headed by Mrs. Coolidge Mrs. Coolidge heads the list of pa- tronesses for the card party which the District of Columbia Daughters of the American_Revolution will hold at the Willard Hotel Friday evening at 8 o'clock for the benefit of a chapter house. Additional patronesses are Mrs. Josiah A. Van Orsdel, Mrs. George May- nard Minor, Mrs, Charles H. Bissell, Mrs. Howard L. Hodkins and Mrs. George T. Smallwood. The arrangements for the party are under the supervision of the chapter house committee, with Mrs. Ralph P. Barnard as chairman. 1115 117 Ya Sports Coats—and every 3 G FOOTWEAR CREA TIONS. : ArTC Choose Any or Evening Wrap —of the present season—no exceptions—Dress or 3 Plans for Dixie Ball, February 4, Under Way Plans are well undér way for the twenty-sixth annual Dixie ball, which will be given by the Robert E. Lee Chapter, U. D. C., at the Mayflower Hotel, Monday, February 4. The committee in charge of the ball is Mrs. Walter E. Hutton, chairman; Mrs. W. A. Swallow, vice chairman; Mrs. George D. Horning, Mrs. Frank Goodwin, Mrs. Lorena Hewett, . Maude Howell Smith, Mrs. John J. Mac~ Donald, Mrs. R. B. Whitehurst, Mrs. R. A. Allen, Mrs. Annie Mossburg, Mrs. Rexford Smith, Mrs. George Wyne, Mrs. E. H. Lynham, Mrs. L. F. McKay, Miss Ethel Berry, Mrs. Addie Barrett, Mrs. Mae Markley, Miss Gladys Allen and Mrs. Eleanor Collins. Miss Elsie Harman will head the girls" committee, which will consist of a large corps of young ladies from congressional and residential circles. Mr. John Chumbley will be in charge of the floor. D. A. R. Chapter Party Aids Community Chest Constitution Chapter, D. A. R, is planning a card party February 13 at 8 o'clock at the Hamilton Hotel, the proceeds to be applied to the Commun- ity Chest and patriotic work. Mrs. Robert H. McNelll, the regent, has ap- pointed Mrs. E. Richard Gasch, vice re- gent, director on arrangements. Chairman of committees are: Tickets, Miss Mae Helm; patrons and patron- esses, Mrs. Theodore Tiller; prizes, Mrs. T. Hardie Seay; tallies, etc., Mrs. S. G. McElhannon; publicity, Mrs. Harry Taylor, and candy, Mrs. Charles H Gay- lord, assisted by Miss Prancis McNeill, Miss Eloise Dasher, Miss Dorothy Dow- den, Miss Adelaide Beard, Miss Mar- garet Mitchell, Miss Mary Junkins, Miss Edna B. Talbot, Miss Sarah L. Talbot and Mrs. B. B. Bradley. | Keystone State Society Announces Meeting Date Music by the Keystone Quartet and a dancing program will feature the January meeting of the Pennsylvania Society Wednesday night in the Wil- lard ballroom. Representative Leech, president of the society, announces that box holders for the season’s meetings include Secretary Mellon, Senator Reed, mem- bers of the Pennsylvania delegation in the House and others. WATER COLORS Etchings — Drawings Corcoran Gallery Closes Sunday, February 3rd Exhibition Water The LOUVRE F STREET Unrestricted Choice In this twice-yearly Clearance Event we make no exemptions—save one— Choose Any Dress Street, Sport or Afternoon, of the son—except to $16.50 group— present sea- Off! Coat Evening Wrap— Off! We make this occasion specially attrac- tive with these radical price reductions on garments of Louvre distinctive types—that you may enjoy an unusual opportunity, while we gain the advantage of clearance. No returns can be accepted; or exchanges made of gar- ments purchased in this sale. T A ONLY TWICE A YEAR DOES ART- CRAFT REDUCE THEIR EXCLUSIVE RAFT 955 axn g5 FOOTWEAR FQR STREET, AFTER- NOOX AND EVEN- ING, FORMERLY Charge ‘Accounts Invited 22.50 _TO 14.50. ALL S1ZES, AAATO C. EARLY SHOP- February 15. sale than in any like period before. 3317 TO 507 OFF REGULAR PRICES.ON FUR COATS _ The’ smartcs# models "in Fox Scarfs in Beige, Platinum, Pointed, Silver Brown, Cross, Amber and Sable Brown are quoted at equally attractive prices. We Invite Your Charge Account A Small Deposit Will Reserve Your Selection The Solicitor General and Mrs. Wil- fam De Witt Mitchell will entertaint £b dinner Friday evening, February 8, and will be hosts again at dinner Fri- | day evening, February 15 SWoRZNS 716 13th St. N.W. Just Above G Street Embroidery for Evening Gowns By Machine and Hand—also Bequents and Rhinestone Setting, Machine Marking on Towels, etc. Hemstitching, Pleating, Buttons and Buttonholes All Work Guaranteed SAKS FUR CO. IN THE CONFIDENCE OF THE PUBLIC OVER FORTY YEARS 610 Twelfth St—Just Above F Phone Main 1647 Pirect - and Mrs. Grant To Ts Hosts at Dinner. The director of the mint and Mrs. Robert Grant will entertain at a dinner on February 9 at the Wardman Park Hotel. Judge and Mrs. Oscar E. Bland will entertain a company of 50 at dinner N