Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1929, Page 45

MRS R "SOCIETY Features for WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY ' SECTION MORNING, MARCH he Sunday Star W, 19 Tales_ of Well Known Folk MRS. DANIEL F. STECK, With her husband, Senator Steck of Towa, she is living at the Galleon on Q Street. ‘Underwood. Many Important Functions Of Recent Days Challenge Interest in Society World Presidentand Mrs. Hoover's Reception to Foreign .Envoys Most Noteworthy Event—Cabinet Ladies Exchanging Visits. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. ANY diversions engaged society last week besides watching the President’s family adjust itself to life in the White House, an old but ever new story to Washington—old because for more than a hundred years the change has been made every four or eight years, and new because no two families ever do it just alike. Weddings closed the week socially, and there were dinner parties and | luncheons of more than usual size and interest each day. | Tm! is very little unnecessary formality about the President and | Mrs. Hoover in settling in their new abode, and, indeed, they are | doing it so comfortably and naturally that one might think of them | as always having belonged there. The reception to the heads of | foreign missions Monday afternoon was the first and largest affair | there of the week: and following out the form and ceremony observed | for the diplomatic and other state dinners, the guests were ranged | in line so the President and Mrs. Hoover had only to pass along and Pave each guest presented according to rank. | MRS. JULES JAMES, Wife of Comdr. James and nicce of the Secretary of State, designate, and Mrs. Stimson. * ‘Underwood. TH‘E dean of the corps, Sir Esme Howard, Ambassador of GrealE Britain, and Lady Isabella Howard stood with the Secretary of | State and Mrs. Kellogg at the head af the line, with the Ambassadors, Ministers and charge d’affaires and their ladies placed according to . rank. The President and Mrs. Hoover joined their guests in the state dining room for tea. Mrs. Hoover has received groups of guests by special appointment several times during the week and yesterday, accompanied by one of the White House staff of aides, attended the | wedding of Miss Eleanor Wilson and Mr. Bethuel M. Webster, jr., in| St. John'’s Church, on Lafayette Square. | W the country, who have either lingered on following the inaugura- tion or have come to see how the new administration adjusts itself, had many opportunities of observing the First Lady of the Land and : ogners of her family during the week at the Amaryllis Show and on | the streets near the White House. There have been many children | in the mansion since it was built, but no others have ever attracted | more attention or been more winsome than Peggy Ann and Herbert‘ C. Hoover, 2d, the grandchildren of the President and Mrs. Hoover. | Whenever they went abroad or presented themselves in sight of the | many who haunt the White House for a glimpse of the family, they were watched with delighted interest. | General and Special Notes Cabinet and Congress Circles Passed in Review. Personal Mention of Many Others Prominent in SOCiCty Ranl(s. - The Secretary of State and Mrs. Kel- | Evanston, TIl., who also came to Wash- e RAniesnewan the cabinet are having a delightful exchange of | jogg will return tomorrow from a bricf ington for the banquet. visits in the informal teas given for them by others in the circle, | visit in ‘New York, where they went for ' > and the same charming atmosphere of simplicity and good fellowship | n. week end. - pervades the President’s executive family as exists in the White House 1 itself. Seldom has society felt more at home with a new administra- | tion than with the present one. | Mr. and Mrs. Jardine | Plan to Visit Pinchurst. | The former Secretary of Agrieulture The Secretary of the Treasury, MI |, .4 yec william M. Jardine and Mr. ASHINGTON, with its round of official life, becomes so routine ' his son, Mr. Paul Mellon, at New Haven | 1t i L " oot o the week for that any innovation in the way of entertainment is hailed witkh and will return tomorrow. | delight; and now it has to talk about the hunt ball and breakfast at | |5 melEe s 1T Iyaurdisons | time. the Mayflower Hotel on the night of May 17, when the annual Spring| The Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Horse Show will be in full swing. Pink coats and other sporting togs, | Robert Patterson Lamont, will return| pormer Secretary of War, Mr. Dwight intermingled with conventional evening attire, will lend a charm. A {tomorrow from New York, where he|F. Davis, and his daughter, Miss Alice bugle will announce the opening of the ball at 10:30 o'clock and the { yent to meet Mrs. Lamont on her ar- | Brooks Davis, are the guests of Mr. and breakfast hour past midnight, and there will be other evidence of | . A e rne P HTtaly, ki ity g e : whip and spur in the evening’s entertainment. s | rival yesterday from y i ‘\,mr w“::::? ;f,‘fii‘"%"iufii‘fif’%’l%h‘ln‘fi . : | Senator and Mrs. James Couzens will | will return tomorrow. ey St d B i s Washington ‘and Fort . o today for Augusta, Ga. where| Mrs. Davis, who has been ill for some Myer Saturday for the annual Society Circus, for which women e Bel Air Vi 1t | time. is now in Baltimore for further and men of soclety have been in practice for weeks past. The sound | they will ‘1"' at ;"" T“’ Alr ‘]““:"’"' t | treatment. of the bugle, which never fails to thrill, will announce the opening in | for several weeke hey will be ac-| 3 5 ey The afternoon. and there will be another show at night. Those of the | ompanied by their . daughter, Miss| Mrs, Delos A Bl ety younger set in society who are not. in the ring will be looking on, and | M# Cou7ens. : o e an. Iomen. ek sl one of the most interesting numbers will he the children’s ride, with! Reprasentative and Mrs. Frank H.| her sister and niece, Mrs. Charles its escort of trumpeters of the Fort Myer Bugle Corps. | Poss );1nd lhtl'u' dflauxh er, Miss Ruth| G, Matthews and Mrs. James L. Walsh. Sk Foss, have closed their apartment in | - HE celebrity breakfasts which have been given this Winter by the | the Roosevelt and_gone o their home | Miss Hilda Howe, daughter of Rear T = . ' & “ Z ' s {in Fitchburg, Mass., to remain until| Admiral Francis Graham Howe, Nationa League of American Pen Women at the Willard Hotel | ype convening of the spectal session of | U. S. N.. who was presented to society for the bexefit of the organization’s national clubhouse fund will be | congress, April 15. here several seasons ago, will appear brought %o a close Friday with the fourth and last event of this| z = this week in the cast of “The Devil's series, which will take place at 12 o'clock. Washington society has| The former assistant atlorney gen- Mistress,” and will make her profes- showsx. a real interest in this opportunity afforded to greet personally ;‘:'r':)‘sb‘;‘ el p‘;::,‘:‘g““drmm acunie z’\‘:{‘n"‘}“"'b“‘ in Washington tomorrow and to hear the prominent folk of thg world of literature and allied | Washington At the: Mayflower, having | Miss Howe, who is a native of the arts, and the breakfasts have been welcome additions to the social | ome here to attend the first annual| District, has many friends here, made calendar. Among the guests of honor Friday will be the. Italian|panguet of the Washington branch of | during her debutante season and the Ambassador, Nobile Giacomo de Martino, and Representative Ruth |the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, given | few Winters that her father was Bryan Owen of Florida. On Friday, April 12, the league will give its |last night at the Mayflower. They were | stationed here. Rear Admiral Howe is annunal authors’ breakfast also at the Willard Hotelo Jjoined by Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pool of (Continued gn Third Page.) i Of Official Life in Capital Wives of Diplomats ]MQ;. Kellogg Invites | To Teaon \Vcdnesday‘ Ladies of U. S. and Other Nations Appmvin;{ Out- lawry of War Are Honor Guests. Mrs. Kellogg, wife of the Secretary of State, has issued invitations for tea Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Pan-American Unijon building. The guests will include the wives of cabinet officers, wives of the representatives of the governments which have signed the Kellogg treaty for the outlaw of war |and the wives of the chiefs of Latin | American missfons in Washington The Postmaster General, Mr. Walter F. Brown, and Mr. Michael Galligher dined at the Willard last eveninz. Mrs. Charles P. Summerall, wife of [Vhf‘ chief of staff, U. S. A., will be the | honor guest at luncheon Wednesday of | Mrs. Clement C. Whitcomb, who will | entertain at the Carlton Hotel. Mrs. Jean Henry Large, sister of the First Lady of the Land, was a guest at the dinner Miss Florence E. Ward {gave last cvening at the Arts Club in | honor of Mrs. Elbert L. Johnson of | Waterloo and Dean Sara Louise Arnold of Boston. Among the other guests were Representative and Mrs.’ F. Dick- inson Letts, Represeniative and Mrs. |C. W. Ramsyer. Representative and Mrs. J. B. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis R. Alderman, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Crab- tree. Dr. and Mrs. C. B, Smith, Mrs. Gertrude Bowman, Miss Gertrude War- | |Yen, Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, Dr. Mary (Continued on Third Page.) | 'Belgians Here on Mission Engage Apa rtments | Senor David_Alvestegui and Senor | Enrique Finot. Bolivian delegates to the | Commission of Inquiry and Coneiliation |of Bolivia and Paraguay, | by Senora de Alvestegui and Senora | Finot, have faken apartments in th | Mayflower for their stay in Washington. | Bolivia, and at one time was secretary | | of state. He is a well known author and | | journalist, having written several books ' {relating to the Bolivian-Paraguayan | question. Senor Finot is the diplomatic representative of his country in Chile, ! (and is also a member of the House of | | Deputies. Senor Alvestegul and Senor ! Finot are also accompanied by Capt. | Oscar Moscoso G., military attache, and { Senor Humberto Cueto Pozo, attache. Gen. Guillermo Ruprecht, the Uru- ' guayan delegate to the conference, who also is at the Mayflower, is accom- panied by his daughter, Senorita Inez | | Ruprecht. Gen. Ruprecht is the former | chief of stafl of the Uruguayan armies, and was also secretary of war, Dr. Al- berto Dominiguez of the foreign service {office in Montevideo is here with Gen. ! | Ruprecht, acting as secretary to the | mission. | | Dr. Manuel M. Sterling, Cuban Am- | bassador to Bollvia and Paraguay and | a delegate to the conference concerning ' these countries, will alse be at the May- flower with Senora de Sterling for an |indefinite stay.* Dr. F. Gonzales Roa, the Mexican | tietegate,© who has represented his | country ‘on numerous missions of this | kirid, is accompanied by his daughter, norita Julia Gonzales Roa, and they also are staying at the Mayflower, PN MRS. WALTER BROWN, F. Wife of the new Postmaster General, staying at the Mayflower. MRS. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Wife of the Secretary of the Navy, and with him the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson. . MRS. ROBERT s Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera committee in Washington, appearing LOW next. month. Harris & Ewing. Capital Cordially We]cames Senator British Embassy Honoring And Mrs. Waleort . Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft New Member of Upper House From Connecticut and His Wife Greeted as "Old Timel’!..‘ Senator Frederick Collins Walcott, | who is the successor of George P. Mc- | Lean in the upper mouse and associate | tain at luncheon Tuesday |of Senator Bingham of Connecticut. returns to a familiar field, since he and accompanied | his wife called Washington home for | Howard will be hosts at dinner Thurs- de | the greater part of two years while the day evening. € | former was an aide of the President! in the Food Administration. With so Mellon. is spending the week end with ohg el 7 "R pakin will leave by Senor Alvestegui_the former Minister | many others who had become wartime | Donna Antoinette de Martino will leave from Dolivia lo Paraguay, was %1% & residents of the Capital, they resided | Washington Priday, Apri} S and “'i“{ | e House of Deputies inl¢or 2 time at the Willard and later in , sail from New York the following day | n apartment in Wyoming avenue not | far distant from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Senator and Mrs. Walcott will. after April 1, reside in the historic mansion in S street, where the Secretary of Commerce received the news of his nemination'by the Kansas City convention. Mrs. Walcott is at present in Tucson, Ariz, where she went about six weeks ago o escape the ' most severe part of the New England Winter, but she will start eastward in !time to reach Washington for Easter | and to take possession of the new home the day following. Senator Active in Aid of Geographic Society. The new Senator and his wife will touch Washington at so many angles that the former's coming is a major event of the opening Hoover administra- tion. He is a trustee of the National Geographic Society and has been for years most helpful in its affairs. He is a cousin of the late Dr. Charles Doo- little Walcott, recent secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and, like many members of his family, he has a_dis- tinet leaning toward science. With Lord William Percy and Dr. Prank M. Chapm: he made a lengthy and dan- (§entinued on Third Page.) Complimentary Luncheon Announced for Tues- day by Ambassador and Lady Howard. Diplomatic Notes of Special Interest. Great Britain | will enter- in compli- and Mrs. The Minister of Portugal and Vis- countess d'Alte are in New ‘York for & stay of a week and will not return un- til Wednesday. The Ambassador of and Lady Isabeila Howa ment to the Chief William Howard Taft The Ambassador and Lady Justice Isabella - The Minister of Hungary and Coun- tess Szechenyi entertained at dinner st evening. The Italian Ambassador and Nobil ‘The Minister of Colombia. Senor Dr aboard the Conte Biancamano for Italy Don Enrique Olaya, has been joined b !"to remain several months. | Senora de Olaya. who has been at Johns L The Ambassador.of the. Brench Re.| HOPEIns Hoepital in Baitimore attes public, M. Paul Claudel, was joined: brief stay in Atlantic City. vesterday by Mme. Claudel and’ their : daughter. Mlle. Reine Claudel, who . were in New York for the week. The Minister of Panama and Senoru {de Alfaro will entertain a company of | 20 at luncheon today in compliment to The Ambassador of Chile, Senor Don ' Senora Roberto Heurtematte of New Carlos Davila, was the guest of honor | York, formerly of Panama, who is vis- at dinner Sunday, March 10, at St.!iting her sister, Senora de Arias. in her | Cecelia’s Academy. Others in the com- | apArtment in_the Hotel Roosevelt. The 1 v. Edward A. | ranking guests at the luncheon will be | Bace. Ph. D. S .| the Minister of the Dominican Repub- | George A. Dougherty. S :'the Very | lic and Senora de Morales. | Rev. Patrick J. McCormi¢, S. T. L.| : 2 { Ph. D.: the Very Rev. John Ryan, S. T. The MMister of Austria and Mme By the Rev. Bernard A, McKenna, S, | Prochnik will entertain at dinner Tues- T.'D.. of the Catholic University: the | day evening: | Vers Rev. Francis McBride, C. S. C.| Tne Minister of Bgyot and Mme. resident of Holy Cross College, and the | — SUNEer - 3 |gev4 Father Paschasius of the Carme- | (Continued on Second Page.) | lite Order. 1 !Hostesses Cancel . The Ambassador of Germany and Frau | At-Home Dates von Prittwitz und Gaffron will return| Mrs. Henry F. Dimock w - today from a short stay in Philadelphia | scrve her Sunday l;::m:r:“l:' ogml:e and will leave tomorrow for a fort-| again this season. . night's visit in Florida, where they wm‘ spend a short time at several of the Mrs. James A. Lvon will not be at Winter resorts. home this alterncon. 3 o- German Ambassador To Visit in Florida. ‘ K