Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1929, Page 43

Features for Women Part 3—16 Pages he Sunday Star "SOCIETY SECTION Tales of Well Knownfi Folk WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1929. <> MRS. LEE S. OVERMAN MRS. BARNETT, Wife of Maj. Gen., Barnett, an important patroness for the Bal Boheme Monday night at the Willard.. With Senator Overman of North Carolina at the Powhatan for the Winter. Harris & Ewing. Presidentand Mrs. Coolidge Establish Notable Record AsHostsatthe White House Army and Navy Reception of Thursday Night Closes Memorable Career Marked by True American Hnspitality. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. HEN the President and Mrs. Coolidge greeted their last guests at the Army-Navy reception Thursday night, they closed a social record for hospitality unequaled in the past history of the White House. There has been no blare of trumpets or effort at ostentatious elegance, no striving to leave unique features or changes behind them, but a steady flow of typical American hospitality such as is intended to be carried out in the mansion, and with fewer lapses than in any administration of recent years. O far as the outer world knows Mrs. Coolidge has introduced no special innovations, and the reception of Thursday was consistently in keeping with the first event of state held in this administration. Because the public has come to know its President and First Lady better, there was the feeling of informal hospitality which has existed at all the receptions this season, 'O mistress of the White House was ever more beloved than is Mrs. Coolidge. She has given every evidence of her interest in the Capital as a city, and has lent her name to further every move for charity, from the small card party or dance for raising funds for hr())mestand hospitals to the very large things of a more national character. THERE is a genuinely personal feeling about Mrs. Coolidge which attaches to few other First Ladies, because she has given of herself personally. She has answered most. of her little notes at her own desk in her own living room, writing long hand and with her pictures and birds and other pets about her, and somehow the atmosphere has permeated everything she has done. Her smile, her dress, her hearty greeting all leave an impress that will warm the future pages of White House history and make splendid reading. OTHER than the State reception the week has been unusually re- plete with interesting events, like the dinner at the Spanish em- bassy when the Ambassador of Spain and Senora de Padila invited Secretary Mellon, the Secretary-of War, Mr. Davis, ‘and the Secre- tary of the Navy and Mrs. Wilbur and the Ambassador to Madrid and Mrs. Hammond to celebrate King Alfonso XIII day with all the. ceremony the embassy can command. NOTHER interesting embassy dinner was that of the Ambassador of Great Britain and Lady Isabella Howard for the Speaker and | Mrs. Longworth, when several diplomats and members of the Senate |and House also were invited. Lady Isabella is a gracious hostess and ‘l very persistent one, who entertains frequently yet finds time to per- l.ox&ally!l%nk after several Catholic charities in which she is especially rested. e i Middle West came in for two of the most handsomely appointed | dinners of the season, the Vice President and Mrs. Dawes being Euests of Senator and Mrs. Charles 8. Deneen, at the Willard, and ghe Vice President-elect, Senator Charles Curtis, having a similar onor paid him by Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose at the Mayflower. . The ell chosen parties and the elaborate use of flowers at both dinners i3eft them quite representative.of the Winter list of dinner parties. | . HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY, who has just finished a portrait of Mrs. Loose, attended her dinner party, and she has enerously permitted it to be copied for use as a patroness of he charity ball the night of March 4. The Governor of Missouri will e the guest of Mrs. Loose in her box that night and the governors f almost all of the States of the Union—those who come for the ‘inaugural ceremonies—also will be present at the ball in the gov- rnors’ box. —_— STREAK of lurid color against the social horizon will be the Bal Boheme, given by the Arts Club of Washington, at the Willard |gomorrow night. The wardrobes of diplomats from all countries have lbeen drawn upon for native costume, though the ball is supposed to e Egyptian in tendency. Indéed Mahmoud Samy Pasha, the affable inister of Egypt, has fairly depleted the importers’ shops in New *York and elsewhere in his effort to assist in giving the Bal Boheme its rightful atmosphere and he and Mme. Samy Pasha, his lovely Egyptian wife, will be in Egyptian costume, seated in an Egyptian decorated box and watching the Egyptian parade go down the ball- room. The rarest of fabrics and jewels have been gathered in by the ‘Minister, and old prints and valuable pictures and books have been |. lent by him, from which to cull costume atterns. Everything will walk the board from King Tut himself own through the various MRS. MERWYN S. BENNION, Daughter of the Un- dersecretary of State ! and Mrs. J. Reuben Clark, attending the President’s reception Thursday night. ‘Underwood & Underwood i Capital Hostesses Announce "at Homes" With Dates Affixed Receptions Listed in the Schedule of Week—Can- cellations and Changes Also Entered of Record., Mrs, Charles S. Deneen, wife of Sena- afternoon. Mrs, Proctor L. Dougherty, wife of the Commissioner of the District, will be at home Saturday afternoon from 4 to 6 ranks to an animated mummy. The other diplomats who go will wear fancy dress, but not Egyptian, fearing some international complication if they wore the Mative costume of a country other than their own, o'clock at her home, 3713 Jenifer street, for the last time this season. Mrs. Seymour Lowman, wife of the (Continued on Second PageJ tor Deneen, will be at home Thursday | Lady Isabella Howard will entertain at | de Ferrara will be hosts at dinner to- MME. SIMOPOULOS, Who has given her name as a Bal Boheme patfoness tomorrow ight. mr:l% Ewing. MRS. BLAND With her husband, Representative Os- ' car E. Bland. She gave a dinner last night for Mr. and Mrs. Everett San- ders. General and Special Notes Relating to Guests Entertained in Official Folk Home of Vice President. Others Prominent in Social World Dispense Hospitality. The Vice President and Mrs. Dawes have had with them for several weeks their niece, Miss Nancy Hoyt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hoyt, of Jackson- ville, Fla.,, who will be with them until the end of the week. ‘The Attorney General and Mrs. Sar- gent have as their guests for several weeks Mrs. Archibald Taylor of Burling- ton, Vt., and Mrs. Allen M. Fletcher of Ludlow, Vt. Representative and Mrs. Frank H. Foss have been joined by their daugh- ter, Miss Ruth H. Foss, who has been with her sister, Mrs. O. E. Ringquist, in Boston for two months. ‘The Commissioner of Immigration and Mrs. Harry E. Hull have returned to their apariment in the Wardman Park Hotel after passing a few days with Maj. and Mrs. P. A. Hammond, who enter- tained a house party in their quarters at the Army War College. ‘The Assistant Attorney General and Mrs. George R. Farnum have had as their guest for a week in their apart- ment in the Wardman Park Hotel Miss Helen Maguire, who will return to her home in Melrose, Mass., this evening. Maj. and Mrs. Emer Yeager are guests of Lieut. and Mrs. Guy Kirksey at the Boulevard.. Maj. Yeager has been ap- pointed military attache of the United States legation in Poland and Rumania. Lieut. Comdr. and Mrs. Thomas Ross ! Cooley ‘and Lieut. and Mrs. Harry H. | Keith have returned to Annapolis, hav- ing come here tb attend the dinner ! given by Mrs. M. de Claire Bert* ‘n | honor of the Secrétary of the Navy ana" i Mrs. Wilbur, Party on Way Home | From Hot Springs, Va. | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Johnson and | their daughter, Miss Jane Carolyn John- | son of New Haven, Conn., will be guests at the Mayflower until tomorrow on their way home from a visit to Hot ,Sprlnxfl. Va. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid of New York, frequent visitors in Wash- Notable Social Functions Listed in Diplomatic World Entertain Special Guests. Spcal(er and Mys. Longworth Twice Re= cipients of Honor—General Notes. {01‘ ‘The Ambassador of Great Britain and | dinner Saturday evening in honor of the Speaker of the House and Mrs. Longworth. The Ambassador of Germany and Frau von Prittwitz und Gaffron will entertain at dinner tomormw'evemng in honor of the Ambassador of Greal Britain 'and Lady Isabella Howard. dinner Tuesday evening, February 5. The Ambassador of Cuba and Senora morrow evening, their guests having been asked to meet the Speaker of the House and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, The Ambassador of France and Mme, | _The Ambassador and Frau von Pritt- ington, will go to Palm Beach Feb- ruary 1 and will occupy the Kahn Villa. Mr. and Mrs. John Russell Yates Brilliant Wedding have as their house guests in their home, on Shepherd street, Miss Mary | Event of Yesterday | y | Wetzel and Miss Elizabeth Wetzel of In Society CalendarCarlisle, Pa. Mr. John G. Wilson will leave this & e week for an extended tour through Miss Eleanor Parrish Snyder Florida. { Mrs. Ruyssell Snow Hitcheock and and Mr. Beverley M. Cole- | lietle daughters, who have been visitin man Exchange Vows in/|Me: Hitcheock's mother, Mrs. Albert Church Ceremony. Morgan Gilbert, have returned to their home, in Norfolk, Va. \ Miss Helen Lowery entertained for R P I -2 | the week end at her home in Laurel, A wedding of more than usual in- Md. Miss Charlotte Quisenberry of terest took place last evening in Christ | Washington. Church, Georgetown, when Miss® Mrs. Albert Morgan Gilbert has gone Eleanor Parrish Snyder, daughter of ; 0 New York to attend the annual din- Dr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Snyder, became : ler of the Poetry Society of America, the bride of Mr. Beverley Mosby Cole-|of which she is a member. man, son of Mrs. Stuart Mosby Coleman | and grandson of the Confederate chief- | Georgia Leader in D. A. R. | Coming to Washington. ’| tain,” Gen. John 'S. Mosby of Virginia. Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge of Athens, Qlaudel have issued invitations- for <4 T (Continued on Second Page.) The ceremony was performed by the Ga., vice president general of the 4 % (Continued on Second Page.) - - & D. A. R. and candidate for president general in the April elections, will ar- rive in Washington Monday to attend the three-day convention of the Wom- en’s Patriotic Conference. She will also be present at the meet- g(; ‘g the National Board of the Mrs. James Henry Harper, regent of Columbia Chapter, D. A. R., entertained the members Tuesday evening im her home, 708 East Capitol street. Mrs. G. K. Thompson of Buffalo has ;x‘;ken an apartment at the Hay-Adams ouse. Mrs. J. A. Lee of Chicago, Ill, is the guest of Mrs. Tyler Kent. Mrs. Lee is the honorary State division president of the United Daughters of the Con- federacy in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Sampson of Cleveland are stopping at the Hay- Adams House while visiting Mrs. Samp- son's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M. ‘Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Day of Ful- ton, Mo., are at the Grace Dodge Hotel, to remain until some time next week. Gov. Trumbu{l Enjoying An Outing in Florida Gov. John Trumbull of Connecticut has been demonstrating his abilities as crack rifleman, golfer and air pilot, says the Associated Press in a dispatch from | st. Petersburg, Fla. The governor sailed |over the city several times last week with Johnny Green, veteran aviator, sitting as passenger in the front cock- pit. A yachting trip down Tampa Bay also was made by the governor and Mrs. Trumbull as guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. McMasters. ‘This brings one to the realization that if governors of States are accompanied by the members of their respective staffs when they come to Wi for the inauguration of President Hoover, Col. John Coolidge, a son of the Chief Ex- ecutive and Mrs. Coolidge, will have an opportunity to pay his last visit in the White House during his father’s ad- mlr‘:'mntlnn. as he is on the governor's staff. Mrs. Gerry #o Entertain Women's National Club Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry will tain members of the Women's National Fress Club at an informal party Mon- day night, February 4, in her home, 2132 R street. Her invitation also in- cludes the husbands of the women, Senator Gerry will assist Gerry at this rece) , a5 he did at a similar event held season. Mr. and Mrs. f‘loover Invited To Attend Ball in Miami President-elect and Mrs. Hoover have been invited to annual costume ball at . *Herbert attend the an event attended