Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1929, Page 26

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON., D. €. WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 1 SOCIETY (Continued From Nineteenth Page.) | Miss Olive McClintic and Miss Elizabeth | Ransley. Hostesses for the weekly tea Frldnvl &t the club will be Mrs. Ernest Acker- man, Mrs. John A. Allen, Mrs. Sidney Anderson, Mrs. August Andreson, Mrs. | James Aswell, Mrs. Willlam C. Adam- | son, Mrs. Carl G. Bachmann, Mrs. Rob- | ert Bacon, Mrs. John M. and Mrs. | Alben Barkley. The guests of honor will be the president and former presi- dents of the Women's National Press Club, Miss Ruth Eleanor Jones, Mrs. | Sallle V. H. Pickett, Mrs. Cora Rigby | and Mrs. Lilly Rowe Shepard. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Burns, who are en route to their home in Madison. N. J., after passing the Winter in Flor- | ida, are spending some time in Wash-‘ ington to be with their daughters. Miss Frances Burns and Miss Bessie Burns, who make their home at the Grace Dodge Hotel. With them are Mr. and Mrs. George Baker of Ironwood, Mich., and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Baker of Ish- | pening, Mich. The party spent the! ‘Winter at Coral Gables and are motor- ing home, having toured Florida exten- sively pefore starting North. | Festivities for Delegates To Garden Club Meeting. The delegates to the Conference of State Garden Club Federations will be entertained at tea by Mrs. Whitman Burton. The company later -mndod‘i the officers’ dance t Fort Humphreys, ‘ Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Thorn entertained | at dinner Sunday evening in their | home, at 1216 Emerson street, to cele- brate the ninety-sixth birthday anni- versary of Mrs. 8. R. Thorn, mother of | Dr. Thorn. There were four genera- | tions present, including besides the host | and honor guest, Mr. Charles R. Thorn | | of New York. another son of Mrs. Thorn: a granddaughter and her husband, Mr. | and Mrs. Philip Altenbaugh, and a great-grandson, Philip Altenbaugh. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gaw of Jamaica, Long Island, are at the Grace Dodge Hotel for an extended stay. Another brilliant Japanese event in honor of the Ambassador is sched uled for Friday night at the Washing- ton Monument. The list of those who have reserved seats number nearly 1,000. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, will tell | the story of the “Cherry Blossoms,” and Mrs. George Henry Payne. noted speaker | Conception Academy will giv lis a patroness and boxholder for the [ from New York, will talk on “Japan.” | party Friday 4 Blve s card g | Hhe officir! films of the enthronement | Oyster's Hall, at Twenty-sixth street | SHOW. |of the Japanese Emperor and the in-|and Pennsylvania avenue northwest. auguration of President Herbert Hoover | will be previewed from the unique talk- | ing motion picture automobile of (h!; Bureau of Commercial Economics, | which has arranged the event. The| entire Navy Band of 80 musicians, | under the direction of Lieut. Charles | Benter, will play, and the ushers will be the season's debutantes. The per- | formance will begin at 7:30 o'clock in the evening and the public is invited. | In the event of wet weather the| | the patriotic fund of the Mary Wash- | Senators and Representatives and ln-{ clal leaders of the city. Miss Johnston Returns For Lecture Tomorrow Evening. { Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, | who has been in Virginia visiting the | historic gardens, which are open this week under the auspices of the Garden Club of Virginia, will return to Wash- ington tomorrow to give the illustrated | talk, “A Ramble in Old Gardens,” in | the Willard Hotel that evening for the | benefit of the Kenmore Association and | ington Chapter, D. A. R. Mrs, John | H. Gibbons has been added to the list | of boxholders, and additional pa- | tronesses are Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, president general N.S., D.A. R.; | Mrs. Carleton Van Valkenburg, Mrs. Herbert M. Lord, Mis. Gibbons, Mrs. | John M. Beavers, Mrs. W. Gwynn Gar- | diner, Mrs. Harcourt J. Pratt, Miss Vir- | ginia Miller and Mrs. George A. C. Christiancy of Hartsdale, N. Y. ‘The senior class of the Immaculate | evening at 8:30 o'clock in | Mr. George Nolle is chairman of the committee and is assisted by Miss M. F. Shanahan, Miss Mary Sweeny, Miss | Mary Chaney and Miss Cecilia Nolte, The distribution of the prizes will be | har}dlod by Miss Margaret Nealon, Miss | Julia Broderick and Miss Eleanor Meade, | Mr. John O. Gheen of the Wardman | Park Saddle Club has selected five judges for the seventh semi-annu | horse show to be given at the Rock Croex | Cross this afternoon after visiting sev- | entire program will be held the same | Park equitation field Saturday under | eral gardens. ‘The illustrated lecture on “Narcissus™ by Mr. B. Y. Thomson in the audi- torium of the Interior Department is | free to the public A lecture will be given tomorrow at Pierce Mill Tea House in Rock Creck Park, and the informal dinner in the Cosmos Club, with Mr. Knowles Ryer- | son as speaker, tomorrow evening will close the conference. The committee on arrangements in- cludes Miss Margaret Caldwell Lan- caster. chairman: Mrs. Truman Abbe, Mrs. Whitman Cross, Mrs. Herman Hollerith, Mrs. John Thider, Mrs. Rich- ard F. Jackson, Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe nd Mrs. John Otto Johnson, registrar. M>s. Walter R. Tuckerman will give & tea for the Junior Theater tomorrow | afternoon in her home in Edgemoor. Her guests will be sponsors and friends of the theater, who are working to ob- tein a supporting membership of 1,500 people to insure the continuance of this civic venture next season. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo is chairman of | the membership committee, which in- cludes Mrs. Tuckerman, Mr. Dion Scott Birney, Mrs, Hewitt Wells, Mrs. Robert C. Howard, Mrs. William Bradley Wil- lard, formerly Miss Plorence Keyes; | Mrs. John J. O'Connor and Mr. Isaac Gans. | Mrs. Acheson F. Hassan is in Phila- | delphia, where she is attending the an- | nual meeting of the Needlework Guild | of America at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Mrs. Thomas J. Preston of | Princeton, N. J., is national presidemi of the guild, and Mrs. William Cabell Bruce of Baltimore is a vice president. Mrs. Preston was formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, widow of the late President, and Mrs. Bruce is the wife of the former Senator from Maryland. Capt. and Mrs. F. Russel Lyons, sta- | tioned at Fort Humphreys, were hosts | at dinner Friday evening at Gray's Hill Inn, Va. The guests were Maj. and | Mrs. C. C. Gee, Maj. and Mrs. R. K. Stacy, Maj. and Mrs. A. A. McDaniel, Mrs. Evans, Capt. and Mrs. A. S. Aker- man, Capt. and Mrs. G. F. Hobson, Capt. and Mrs. M. W. Marston, Lieut. and Mrs. D. A. Newcomer, Lieut. and Mrs. O. C. Torbett, Lieut. and Mrs. R. B. 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