Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1929, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, L0 0 FRIDAY, MAY 10, -1929." SOCIETY | eenth Page) passengers aboard the Conte Grande, sailing today from New York for Italy. They will spend several months in Spain. Former Senator and Mrs. William Alden Smith of Grand Rapids, Mich., | arrived in Washington this morning and | are guests at the Mayflower. Col. B. H. Williams will entertain at | dinner_tomorow evening at the Ward- | man Park Hotel. Miss Dela P. Mussey is visiting her mother, Mrs. Sllen Spencer Mussey, at | her apartment in the Chamberlain. | She has just returned after spending nearly two. years abroad, where she studied art. | Mrs. Van Ness nad her son. Mr.| William Percy Van Ness, entertained at | a bridge supper last evening in theiv home at 2220 Twentieth street. The company _ included Col. and Mrs Thomas Gansen, Maj. Gen. Holbrook, | Mrs. Edmund K. Webster, Miss Frances | M. Webster, Miss Mona Gill, Mr. Her- | t'i\lham Radford of Gouchland County, | | va. bert Gill, Comdr. and Mrs. W. C. I Stiles, Miss Margaret Hazzard, and M. Harold Phillips. Mrs. Van Ness and her son will leave the end of May for their | Summer home on Squam Lake, N. H, | for the season. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Theis, with thelr | children, will close their home on| Georgia avenue and will go in June to the Bay Ridge Hotel, at Bay| Ridge, Md. Mr. J. Walter Drake of Detroit, for- mer Assistant Secretary of Commerce, arrived in Washington today and is a | guest at the Mayflower. Mrs. Cora Adams Peoples of Johnson City, Tenn.. entertained Friday, with a ridge luncheon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hugh Loftus Nuerell. on Blackthorn street. Covers were laid for 30. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ferris White of Chicago will be guests at the Mayflower until Sunday, when they are leaving for a visit in Philadelphia’ and New York. Mr. White is here attending the sessions | of the American Law Institute, Mrs. Ernott Northcott of Huntington, ‘W. Va., wife of Judge Northcott of the Circult Court of Appeals of the fourth circuit, is a guest at the Annapolis Hotel, where she and Judge Northcott are renewing old friendships with Sena- tor Henry D. Hatfield and Represent- ative James A. Hughes, both also of West Virginia, who are living at the Annapolis. Judge Northcott is attend- ing the sessions of the convention of the American Institute of Law. Mrs. Frank S. Hambleton of Balti- more, who is here attending the Council of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, had guests with her at dinner last evening in the presi- dential dining room of the Mayflower. Mr. Robert V. Fleming tnu:mlned‘ informally at luacheon yesterday in the crystal room at the Willard. Mr. Charalambos Simopoulos, the Minister of Greece, and other members of the legation were the honor guests at | the first annual’ ball of the Laconian Society of Washington, held at the Raleigh Hotel. The committee in charge of arrangements_ included Charles Charuhas, Peter Vynios, Peter Mele- takos, C. Roumel, Nicholas Gaston, N. Caparel, George Nichols, T. Chaconas and Spiro Kolyva Mr. and_Mrs. Mark Sullivan of Jer- sey City, N. J., will be guests at the Mayflower until Sunday. Mr. Sullivan | is in Washington attending the sessions of the American Law Institute. A rather unusual luncheon was given at the Iron Gate, 1734 N street on ‘Wednesday last, when four grandchild- ren of the late Rear Admiral Radford, for whom the house was built in 1875, | held a reunion in one of the stalls of the stable. The place cards were sil- nouettes of the Admiral's grandfather, A rhymed history of the house and family was read. After the luncheon the family was shown through the house in which two of them were born. The party consisted of the four child- ren of Mary Radford Coyle and the late Randolph Coyle. They were Mrs. Horace Gates Torbert, Representative William Radford Coyle, from Bethle- hem, Pa., Mrs. Francois Emile Mat- thes and ‘Maj. Randolph Coyle, United States Marine Corps, on leave from Haiti. Notable Tea for C. D. A., With Mrs. Taft as the Hostess. Mrs. William Howard Taft, honorary vice president, was hostess at tea yes- terday to the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. All the members of the society who have attended the nineteenth biennial council are making a pilgrimage today to Wakefield, the birthplace of George Washington. Mrs. John Lowell, president of the Colonial Dames of Massachusetts, suc- ceeded Mrs. Willlam Adams Brown of New York as first vice president of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America at the election of officers held yesterday afternoon at the May- flower. Mrs. Willlam Holland Wilmer of Baltimore, former secretary of the national society, has been succeeded by Miss Elizabeth Chew Williams, also of Baltimore, who was foimerly the as- sistant secretary, and her position has been taken by Mrs. William McK. Mor- ris of New Jersey. Other national offi- cers of the society, who are continuing in the offices previously held, are Mrs. Joseph Rucker Lamar, honorary presi- dent; Mrs. James P. Andrews, presi- | dent; Mrs. William Howard Taft, hon- orary vice president; Mrs. Christopher Margaret Foster, third vice president; Mrs. Frederick A. Packard, treasurer: Mrs Chiles Mason Ferreli, registrar, and Mrs. Edward Val, historian. The League of Republican Women will entertain at its weekly tea tomor- | row afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock at | the Barr Building, 911 Seventeenth | street. Mrs. Warren G. Haynes will | act as hostess. |~ Mrs. Edward A. Harriman, president | of the league, will be present during | the afternoon to greet the members and their guests. Those assisting at the tea table will be Mrs. Merchant Mahoney, wife of the commercial secre- tary of the Canadian legation: Mrs. | and Mrs. McClelland. Mrs. A. Valentine of Forest Hills, Long Island, is at the Carlton for se cral days, accompanied by her daugh- ter, Miss Grace Valentine, and Mrs. A. | Hoffmann. | —_— Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Fenn of Newport | News are guests at the Annapolis. Be- fore returning home Mr. and Mrs. Fenn will visit in Baltimore. The annual Spring tea of the Chi Sigma National Sorority will be held at the Carlton Hotel tomorrow from 3 to 6 o'clock. Miss Dorothy Wills, Tota Chapter, will act as hostess. Mrs. H. R. Montfort of Richmond, Va., is the guest of her son, Mr. L. R. Montfort, at the Annapolis Hotel. Mrs. Montfort is returning to her Virginia home Friday. L. Ward, second vice president; Miss | Sydney Cloman, Mrs. George Akerson’ ! | STAFFS OF WEEKLY HOYA HONORED BY UNIVERSITY Capital Correspondents’ Speakers at Dinner to Members of Georgetown Paper. Ten years of journalistic endeavors | were reviewed at the annual dinner of | ’thc Hoya, weekly publication of George- | { town University, last night at the May- flower Hotel, With two Washington correspondents as honor guests, Willmott Lewis of the | London Times and Charles Michelson | |of the New York World, the incoming iand outgoing Hoya staffs were honored | by the heads of the various departments of the university and representatives of the student_body. Gerald Shattuck of New York, the | first managing_editor of a Georgetown | weekly, which later became the present | publication, presented Hoya keys to Francis X. Degnenn, the retiring editor, | | and other "executives on the staff. | Among the guests were Charles S. | Regan of Brooklyn, assoclate editor of | the first Hoya staff 10 years ago, and | Arthur J. Brown, present editor of the | | Georgetown journal. Mr. Lewis and Mr. Michelson, the | principal speakers, combined with ad- | vice to the members of the staff, who Imay engage in newspaper work, some interesting_ sidelights on the gathering of White House and congressional news, Joseph B. Brunini, the newly elected ! . The fastest and most powerful air liner on the Imperial Airways London- Continental service, a great triple-mo- tor Handley-Page Jupiter, has been sold to a gold-mining syndicate to transport gold over the New Guinea mountains from the interfor to the coast. B 5 Umtil 7:30 , Our Famous SEA FOOD DINNER 75c Or your choice of our regular menu R N N 4 DRESSES and DRESS ENSEMBLES That Simply Cannot Be Elsewhere at Such Low Thé newest models in fashionable dresses. 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J., moderator of the pub- lication, also were among the guests. CONCERTS TO BEGIN. Park Musical Programs for Coming Week Announced. Inaugurating the park Summer con- cert session on next Tuesday, Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the Office | of Public Buildings and Public Parks, | announced the schedule today for the coming week. There will be fewer con- certs this year, it was said, owing to the absence of the Army Band at the In- The coming week’s schedule follows: Tuesday—Sylvan Theater, Monument | Grounds; Navy. Thursday—Sylvan Theater, ment Grounds; Marine. Thursday—Meridian Hill Park, Six- teenth and Euclid streets; Navy. Friday—Washington Circle, Twenty- third street at Pennsylvania avenue; Community Civic. The hours for the Tuesday concert will be from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m. and for those on Thursday and Friday from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. McDEVITT DRAPERIES SLIP COVERS WINDOW SHADES 1211 F St. 2nd Floor Main 3211 Monu- i ; J Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued to the i Edward Dorsey, 36. and Prances Selby, 25; Rev. Preston Fantroy. Géorge Gartside. 26, and Barbara Crane, . Brigs. . 23, and Sylvania M. Black- . Rober;, W. Thomas. aphae! Wills, 28, and Virginia F. Mcore. 21: Rev. Robert Anderson. Christ D. Liakos. 33, and Xantippe Franks, 9; Rev. Thomas Daniels. Benjamin A. Jones, 18. and Doris T. Rog- ers. 18; Rev. john T, Huddle. John W. Jeffers, 21, Judsonia, Ark., and Oiive E, Robertson, 21, this city; Rev. How- "iliians & Everty. 29, this cf d El am 8. Eberly. 29, this city. and Eliza- belh McGrath, 30, New Cansan, Cona.: Judge Robert E. Mattingly. afker 22, and Martha A. Bar- Te G. Lier. J n. 33. and Celle Freedenbers. 26, both of Baliimore, Md.: Rev. G. Silver: stone. Vincent P. Stecher. 22. this city, and Ruby | ternational Exposition at Seville, Spain. | L. Thomas. 18. Bradbury Heights, Md.; Rev. Benedict J. Hannemann. 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