Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1929, Page 52

Tales of Well Known Folk In Social and Official Life VJealth 0[ Beautiful Flowera on Wide Lawn Fronting White H Greet Mrs. Hoover. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. Gay-hued flowers give a flash of color to the expanse of green lawn that spreads between the north front portico of the White House and the iron fence which lends privacy to the park about the mansion. It is from the portico that Mrs. Hoover may enjoy the set- ting of the deep blue bed which now is filled with lucillea and squills, grape hyacinths, violets and early forget-me- nots, but later will show those tall graceful clumps of white phlox. This lo. g bed of blue was the first color which showed on the north grounds, although nearby the tulip display is & glory and the clumps of peonies show their ruby stems and make a dash of color quite as effective as flowers, | Some white narcissi are planted in this bed also, but just now only green spikes are above the ground, the flower not being due for about a week. Every kind of tulip is getting ready to bloom in the od Dutch garden on the south grounds and in between the edge of the rose garden, which lies in the open space where President Roosevelt for- merly had his tennis court. Mrs. Cool- idge had a particular affection for the flower beds down near the Avenue, be- cause, as she expressed her pride in it, this was shared by so many. Few who are merely strolling and not rushing to some particular place fail to pause and admire the various blue flowers which are blossoming so merrily, the very first floral welcome extended from the White House grounds to the casual passer-by. * X % ¥ Senator and Mrs. Porter Hinman Dale's sale of their beautiful home at the corner of B and Maryland avenue northeast, to the National Woman's Party was most reluctantly determined in order that both might be closer to | Week at her home on Jackson street, the center of activity. Senator Dale was adjacent to the Capitol and to his | MIs. James C. Rogers, Mrs. T. Ham- office and he will regret the move on this account. But now that Mr$. Dale’s responsibilities have increased trebly on her election to the presidency of |&nd Mrs. Marguerite. Sands. The prizes | the Congressional Club, she wishes to reside in a region less remote from Washington's Mayfair. No members of | officialdom scemed to take such pride in their home or enjoyed more thoroughly the remodeling and furnish- ing of this old mansion. It was built in the era of Washington's most excellent domestic architecture, the first decade after the seat of Government had been | Other “oints. The chaperons were Mrs. The | Frank G. Addison, Mrs. Reverdy Sass- owner and builder was William Dan- |cer, Mrs. Frank Scrivener and Mrs. gerfield of Virginia, but the mansion | Lansdale G. Sasscer, and the committee transferred from Philadelphia. was longest and best known as the Barbour House, home of one of Vir- ginia’s able and eloquent Senators, who had inherated the property from a col- lateral relative. A long series of law suits and neglect had almost ruined the | Among Noteworthy Events. sturdy old building. but under the able supervision of Senator and Mrs. Dale it arose again in its ancient splendor. ‘The dividing walls are three feet thick and the floors of imperishable oak. Nearly all the rooms, especially those for sleeping purposes, are of heroic size, so that Mrs. Dale has equipped these apartments after the genuine Colonial fashion, a mighty poster bed which would comfortably hold four was installed, and at the end a roomy high- boy and lowboy. iy Mr. Robert Wood Bliss and Mrs. Bliss are spending the Spring on their Georgetown estate, “the Ooks and for the first time in several seasons they have enjoyed the marvels of the Spring flowers and flowering vines in their wonderfully restored old garden. As Ambassador to Buenos Aires, Mr. Bliss is taking a deferred vacation, having been kept at his post by the good-will visit of President Hoover and many affairs which followed on its heels. Mrs. Bliss spent the waiting period in Paris and gathered many beautiful drapings and rugs for the now finished home. In remodeling the old mansion and re- arranging the grounds, Mr. Bliss has kept to the British bucolic type, with deep borders of perennial flowers about the home and the grounds which slope and merge into Rock Creek Park in a wild state with frequent replantings when Winter and other causes thin the blossoms. A garden party on this estate is one of the glories of the open weather and is in line of Georgetown traditions in its older and more spacious homes. BB ‘Mr. Chang Po, who is the mayor of Peking, former capital of China, has ad- dressed the national government at Nanking asking that the historic lega- tion quarters in the Forbidden City should be retroceded to the municipal government over which he presides. The mayor's action has been prompted | by the fact that the various legations | BTt to er guest, aiss Heler Ridebl, still remain in Peking although the fed- eral government has been formally es- tablished at Nanking, and that he has recently received a large bill for the road repairs leading to the diplomatic quarter. This work was done for the conveniente of the corps at the\ time when the country was unorganized and at war, and no authority could be 2p- proached to get an appropriation. The mayor argues that the legations s00n | yaud charge of the prizes and Mrs. will have to be moved and that he sees no reason for paying this indebtedgess incurred without the sanction of the Peking counsel. Opinion is universal that if Peking is to pass as the capital of the Chinese Republic, the legation quarter will have to go also and that one of the genuinely picturesque and historically important ~spots of the Eastern world will disappear. The United States owns its legation home. as do all the great powers holding friendly relations with China. The quarter will no doubt be turned into) a handsome residential section and the diplomatic establishments and the grounds surrounding them will have to be purchased by the Peking municipal | over a year. government, since the matter in thej involved methods of oriental procedure cannot be transacted by the new na- | e’ qays with Mrs. Long's mother at tional government in Nanking. PR Mr. and Mrs. William McCormic¢k | Mass., is the guest of Mrs. Robert E. Blair of Chicago, opened their country home in the bitterest part of the recent cold spell and, under the most dis- couraging conditions, gave a circus ball in the glass-inclosed tennis court, heated by monstrous electric stoves. The temperature added vim and energy to the antics of the guests, all garbed | as some animal and supposed to act exactly as this creature should in the primeval forest. Trapeses were erected and long platforms in the air where all the costumed guests had to stroll under the eye of the judges who were to decide on the most original crea- tion. The prizes were quite as original #s the costumes for which they were obtained, and Mrs. Clive Runnells and Mrs. Charles Edward Brown each brought home in a pretty cage two spry little monkeys of the most affectionate dispositions, but decidedly mischievous and destructive. Both soon found a home in the zoo, pen ‘warmer weather, when their owners can make spacious outdoor quarters for them in Lake Forest. e When Signor Giulio Gatti-Casazza, director of the Metropolitan Opera House, included “Hansel and Gretel” in the repertory of revivals during the season which recently closed, he had it in mind to attract children and thus create a musical taste in the forma- tive years. As a Saturday matinee, and repeated five times, the innovation proved artistically and financi sound,’ and for the little people an oc- casion of rapturous adventure. Many of their el attended these per- formances just to watch the children, noting their breathless interest from the moment the curtain was raised, ouse Portico Daily ! 1 their awed appreciation of everything evil which happened to the witch and to the wicked step-mother, and their intense delight in the music. As for behavior, they were models for all opera attendants of no matter what age, and the only time that their enthusiasm exceeded the bounds placed on applause in the Metropolitan, was when the witch was pushed into her own furnace and came out of the other end as a ginger bread figure- The kindly director of the Metropoli- tan gave the prologue of Wagner's “Das Rheingold” as a matinee, and on this occasion, the opera house was crowded with children and they be-| haved with the utmost decorum until the incident where Loge cleverly turns the trick on Alberich when, as if by prearranged plan, they all burst into shouts of derisive laughter. Social Festivities On Wide Scale Noted In Nearby Maryland Capitol Heights Church Wedding Larg:ly Attend- ed—Dinners and Teas and Dancing Among Special Events. HYATTSVILLE, Md., April 6—Mrs. Alfred Hyatt Wells _entertained the | Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Clul thlsi | University Park. Her guests included mond Welsh, Mrs. Charles O. Apple- man, Mrs. Edward A. Fuller, Mrs. Wil- liam D. Porter, Mrs. G. Hodges Carr were awarded Mrs. Sands. An outstanding society event in Prince Georges County was the Easter Monday dance held under the auspices of the Marlboro Cotillion Club in Trin- ity Church Hall. The function was largely attended, the guests coming from many sections of the county and Welsh and Mrs. |\n charge comprised Miss Polly H. | Brooke, Miss Ruth Hill, Miss Mary Sass- cer and Mr. Willlam Hill, Mr. Beale Sasscer and Mr. Lansdale Clagett, Easter Sunday Wedding Rev. Father Corbett, pastor of St.| Mathias Catholic Church, Capitol Heights, officiated at the wedding of | Miss Frances Vendemia and Mr. Salva- tore Junta, which took place Easter Sunday night in St. Mathias Church. A large company of friends and rela- tives attended the ceremony. The bride was attended by Miss Emma Junta, sister of the bridegroom, and Angelo | Vendemia, brother of the bride, was | best man.” A reception at the home of | ‘zi);; bride's parents followed the wed- ng. | Arrangements are completed for the dance to be given Wednesday night, April 10, in Odd Fellows’ Hall, Capitol | Heights, under the auspices of Loyalty Lodge, No. 165, Independent Order of Odd Fellows of that place. Mrs. Vernon D. Acree, Mrs. Stella | | Hamilton, Mrs. Sarah Beavers, Mrs. | | Laura M."Soule and Mrs. Irene A. Con- | ner form the committee in charge of the card party to be held Saturday | night, April 13, at the Capitol Heights School, under the auspices of the Home | and School Association of that place. The Shakespeare Club will meet Tuesday night, April 9, at the home of Mrs. J. Howard Hopkins, Montgomery avenue, Laurel. Special Secial Functions Feature Easter Week. Miss Dixie Robinson entertained at a largely attended bridge party Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. George B. Furman, Owens avenue, Hyattsville. There were 10 tables, and the prizes were awarded Miss Smithers of Hunts- ville, Tex., and Miss Ridell of Sheboy- gan, Wis,, and Mr. Charles Owings and Mr. Howard Sumner of Hyattsville and Washington, respectively. Mr. Daniel C. Fahey of Riverdale was awarded the consolation prize. Mrs. John H. Hollingsworth, Jackson averue, University Park, entertained a small company Thursday night in com- Mrs. Hollingsworth was assisted in entertaining by Mrs. Alfred Hyatt Wells. Dancing featursd a most enjoyable evening. A five hundred and bridge party will be held Thursday night, April 11, in St. Mildred's Hall, Laurel, the proceeds to go to the fund of St. Mary’s Church. Miss Doris Davis is chairman of the geueral committee arranging the de- tails, while Mrs. Walter Robinson will Delia Casey will preside at the refresh- ment booth. Mrs. Doran Weber, Thirty-second street, Mount Rainier, is visiting her daughter in New Jersey. Mrs. Flora Neal, Baitimore, is visit- ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rider, Mount Rainfer. | Mrs. George R. Lee, Thirty-fourth street, Mount Rainier, has returned from Florida. She made the trip with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jehli, also of Mount Rainier. Mr. and Mrs. Roy T. Fowkes and children, Perry street, Mount Rainier, have left for San Francisco and will proceed to the Philippines, to be gone Mrs. F. W. Long and daughter, Anna May, Colmar Manor, are spending sev- Williamsport, Md. Mrs. Clara W. Bangs of Rockport, Joyce in Mount Rainier. Mrs. Joyce and her guest have just returned by motor from a stay of three wecks in Miami, Fla. i 1Of Personal Interest To Washington Residents Mrs. R. B. Behrend, with her daugh- ter, Miss Amy Behrend, will return to- i day from New York, where they have been spending a_week. Mr. and Mrs, Isadore Saks, who, with i their young granddaughters, children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph I Saks, spent Easter week at the Mayflower Hotel, )‘\{:vi returned to their home in New ork. Mrs. Siegfried Fantl of New York spent a short time in the city the past| week en route to her home from a visit in Sumter, 8. C. Mrs. Maurice Eiseman has been spending the past week in New York guest of Mrs. Bella Loeb. Mrs. Estelle Nordlinger, with her daughter Helen, will return today from a week’s stay at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Liebman and daughter, Miss Deborah-Mae Liebman, return today from Atlantic City after a stay st the Ritz-Carlton. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Dammann, with their two children, were guests at the Carlton Hotel for a week. Mr. and Mrs.» Bert E. Collier of Chicago spent last week at the Willard. Mrs. Jeff Kornicher and her young son of New York have been ?endlu 1 the Easter holidays with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Kahn. Dr. and Mrs. Harry M. Kaufman and Mr. Samuel 8. Kaufman have returned from a five weeks’ stay in Tampa, Fla. Miss Virginla Dammann' returns to her home in New York after a visit of a week with her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Sol Minster. Miss Victorla Peyser will return to- day from Baltimore, where she has been spending the Easter holidays with Miss Ruth Schloss. Miss Elizateth Kaufman has Yeen the guest of Mise Desiree Harris in New York for 10 days. She will return today to her home on Twentieth street. Miss Prances Feist, who has been the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Feist in Newark, N. J., for the Easter holidays, will return to the Hotel Roose- velt ‘the coming week to resume her studies at the George Washington Uni- versity. Mrs. Harry Isaacs and her young daughter June have returned to their home in New York after shending the Easter holidays with the former’s par- ents, Mr, and Mrs. Edgar Baum. The Misses Sylvia Sherby, Elizabeth Kohner and Vera Reifki have returned to Goucher College after spending the Easter vacation here with their parents. Mrs. Betty Koenigsberger entertained the Friday Sewing Club last week at her home in Chevy Chase. ‘The Washington, D. C., Section Coun- cil of Jewish Women will hold its regu- lar monthly meeting at the Community Center on Tuesday afternoon at 2:15 o'clock. Mrs. Harry S. Berton will give the opening prayer which will be followed by a costume recital by Elsa Lehman and Mr. E. R. Woodson will give a dis- cussion on vocational guidance. Mrs. Harry Lewis is in Atlantic City for a short stay. Dr. and Mrs. Lewis are now located in' the new annex ‘o Wardman Park Hotel. Mr. and Mrs, Herbert Guggenheim are in New York after a stay in At- lantic City over Easter. Mrs. Henry Marks left yesterday for Chicago to visit her son, Mr. Frank H. Marks. She is en route to the Coast before going to Juneau, Alaska, for a: six months' visit. Mrs, Marks was the guest of honor at a surprise luncheon Easter Monday at Wardman Park Hotel, where she was presented with a travel- ing bag. Later the party played mah- jong at the home of Mrs. Max Rich. Mrs. Cecelia Michaeles and daughter, Virginia return today from Atlantic City after a week's stay. Mrs. Benjamin Einstein left Thurs- day to spend 10 days visiting her daughter, Mrs. George K. Shuler, in New York. The Oriental carnival took place at the L'Aiglon Thursday under the auspices of the Sisterhood 'of the Eighth Street Temple, assisted by a large group of young folk. Many mem- bers were in costume. Supper was served and there was dancing until midnight. Mrs. Benjamin K. Leon is the guest of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Greenberg, in Mount Vernon, N. Y. The third biennial convention, Na- tional Federation of Temple Brother- hoods, will take place in this city today and tomorrow. Tomorrow night a re- ception and entertainment will take place at the Community Center with an interesting program. The speaker of the evening will be Mr. James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor. There will be dancing from 10 to 12 o'clock. The Sisterhood meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Temple Auditorium. The speaker of honor will be Mrs. Maurice Stein- feld, president of the National Federa- tion of Sisterhoods, in whose honor a reception and tea will follow. Miss Jeannette' Miriam Goldberg of Phila- delphia will extend greetings, as will Mrs. Leonard B. Schloss. The Rev. Dr. Abram Simon will also give a talk. Dance and Dinner Honor Younger Set Miss Alice Buell of Herndon, a stu- dent at Western High School, Washing- ton, entertained about 50 guests Tuesday evening at a dance after a five course “progressive” dinner given the young folks in Washington. 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You must be com- pletely satisfied. “Early English” is ever in fashion. The furniture of Jacobean England inspired an attractive dining suite. Ten lovely pieces in walnut and gumwood— $245 A generously proportioned living room suite is built for lasting comfort. The lines are graceful, simple, always in the Tn conjunction with National Home Craft Week we show these lace curtains from our foremost makers. Fringed in panel form or pair curtains, tailored effects, in plain and all-over pat- terns. I.ace Panels and Cur- tains in shadow weaves fillet and all-over pat- terns, are reduced: Were $10, Now $7.95 Were $7.50, Now $5.95 Were $5, Now $3.95 Ruffled Net and Fine Marquisette Curtains Reduced Were $15, Now $12.95 Were $19.50, Now $16.50 Were $22, Now $17.95 Colored Grenadine Curtains, especially adapted for sunporch and breakfast room use: Were $12.50, Now $9.90 Boston Net Panels, with color coin dots. 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We have been spe- _ cialists in this work for over fifty.years. ‘A telephone call will bring our advice and © | prices. < Call Mam 3770, Branch 18 best of taste. mohair and freize, two pieces— Upholstered in $225 A bedroom suite that is always lovely is graceful and refined in line and includes a poster bed. Four pieces in all—the bed, dresser, vanity and chest of drawers, princi- pally in mahogany, beautifully finished— From our stock of fine mat- tresses we have selected this one as an unusually good value. Of layer felt, 50 pounds— $16 A single deck coil spring of fine tempered steel, excep- tionally resilient— $9.75 The boudoir chair sketched at the right is upholstered in bright cretonne. 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