Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1929, Page 53

Features for Women Part 3—20 Pages WASHINGTON, SOCIETY SECTION ~ - he Sunday Star. D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1929, Tales of Well Known Folk MRS. DILL, Wife .of Senator €. C. Ditleot Washington, at the Burlington for the season. Bachrach. Capital Society Enjoying Fair Measure of Activity In Early Winter Season Official Functions Necessarfly Canceled or Post- poned, Due to Mourning Period, but Note- worthy Affairs Are Scheduled. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. ASHINGTON society is not stagnating under, official mourn- ing, for while many important events where cabinet folk are concerned have been canceled or postponed, other affairs are going en with alacrity that would do credit to the most brilliant Midwinter months. It takes such a sad calaminty as cab- inet mourning to show to the world at large that the Capital really boasts a society ainrt. from the official and that it can bask in its own brilliancy at least for a time. MOST all of the more important official dinner parties and other affairs postponed until after December 18, on account of the decree of mourning from the White House, have arranged a new schedule, and while it will necessarily overcrowd the season, there are celebrities to spare for each occasion. The Vice President will entertain at dinner for the President and Mrs. Hoover January 7. PERHAPS never have there been more brilliant coming-out parties than those of last week, diplomats and many officials feeling that they could attend non-official parties, and while debutantes held the center of the stage, just as they will do this week, there is | nn dearth of older persons attending. THIS week the first debutante from the Senate circle will be pre- sented when Miss Barbara Vandenberg, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Vandenberg, will meet her parents’ friends at a '.e‘ Tuesday. Several Senators’ wives will assist and with the bud wil be some girls from the same circle, but the tea will be of a decidedly simple | nature, aside from the very important personages who will attend. | FORMAL dinner parties and large balls are taboo in the official and diplomatic sets, but there are many dances going on, and last week there was inaugurated another particularly charming dancing set with most of its membership drawn from the young matrons and benedicts, but with a few unmarried guests from the still younger set invited. The Dancing Club, they call themselves, and if the event of Thanksgiving eve at the Carlton, when Mrs. Winslow B. Van Devanter and Mrs. Robert Ransdell were sponsors, is a criterion other | dancing circles of older and larger membership must look tq their | laurels. CABIN’EI‘ days at home start on Wednesday, December 18, thei day official mourning is lifted, and all of the wives of cabinet members will be at home for the first time in this administration— that is, officially speaking. Mrs. Longworth, wife of the Speaker, who is supposed to be at home on Tuesdays, House day, has not in the | past allowed it to be known when she is or is not at home and her calls are and have always been of her own choosing rather than those outlined in the official social code. Society Leaders Sponsor Prominent Advisers to Aid German Grand Operav Mrs. James F. Curtis, Mrs. Willlam Mrs. Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston Corcoran Eustis and Mrs. Pranklin H | has been added to the advisory council Ellis have joined the prominent group of the board of governors of the Na- of women who form the Washington | tional Woman's Country Club, to con- committee for the German Grand Opera | sult with the board on matters per- Co’s season here in January and who ! taining to her district. Mrs. E. T. are sincerely interested in the music | Stotesbury of Philadelphia was added culture of the National Capital. to the council last week. The Wagner-Mozart series of operas! Mme. Claudel, wife of the French will be presented soon after Washing’ | Ambassador, is one of the new mem- ton's season of officlal mourning is | bers, and with Lady Isabella Howard on ended, and will come as the first bril- | the board, and with a number of other liant musical event of the new year. | foreign members, the club has an inter- Among the patronesses recently listed | national as well as national atmosphere. for the German opera are Mrs Rl)b“r!‘; Others in the diplomatic circle who Lansing, Mrs. mHuBhLDugley Auc:"?!- have recently taken memberships are Alvin Doda, Mrs. Willam . Donovan, | Princess de Ligne, wife of the Belgian Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, Mrs. Plerre | Ambassador; Mme. Debuchi, wife of Galllard, Mrs. John H. Gibbons. Mrs. | the Japanese Ambassador; Viscountess Christian Heurich, Mrs. Peter A- gay;| d'Alte, wife of the Minister from Portu- and Mrs. Clarence C. Williams. gal, whose husband is dean of the ——— IMlnlsLErs serving here; Mme. Peter, wife | of the Swiss Minister; Senora de Olaya, wife of the Colombian Minister; Senora de Alfaro, wife of the Panaman Min- ister; Mme. Prochnik, wife of the Aus- trian Minister, and Senora de Diez de Medina, wife of the Bolivian Minister. Lady Willingdon, wife of the prime minister of Canada, who makes frequent visits here to Washington, has joined the non-resident members. ‘The board of governors are now plan- ning the formal opening reception, which has been delayed because of the period of mourning for the late Becre- tary Good which is being observed by official society according to custom. It is difficult for new dates to be found because of the crowded condition of the £ocial calendar, ¥ Mrs. Devereux Names Aides for At Home" Today Mrs. Gerry Baldwin Allen, formerly Miss Elizabeth Bevan of Baltimore, anc Mrs. Albert W. Walker, formerly Miss Florence Wetherill, will assist Mrs. John Ryan Devereux at her at home this afternoon. Mrs. Devereux also will hav> with her her daughter and daughter- | in-law, Mrs. Ashton Devereux and Mrs. | Richard Crist. Mrs. Devereux will not | observe her day at home until after the holidays. Mrs. Devereux is vice president of the Gentlewomen's League, which has a most attractive Christmas dislay at No. ¥, 1 Dupont cirele. ¥ | cally, when the voters of the Honduran Woman's Country Club| Errm— Dr. Ardueta. Honduran Envoy. EminentA mong Nation’s Medical Men Successor to Senor Bogran in Diplomatic Corps Also Is Classed With Repub.ic's Most Powerful Leaders. Two Central American republics have recently sent to Washingion as their envoys men who have won first honors in ‘the medical profession—Dr. Sacasa of Nicaragua and the Minister from Honduras, Dr. Ernesto Argueta. Al- though the new minister, Dr. Argueta, successor of Senor Luis Bogran, has fol- lowed his healing art throughout his career, he is also reckoned the most powerful political leader in the republic after its President, Dr. Vincente Majia Colindres. A native of Juticalpa, he made his elementary studies in the schools of that city, and, selecting medicine as his life work, he entered the college of the University of Guatemala and took his degree with signal honors in medicine and surgery, and this before he had attained his twenty-third year. Among the honors secured in his scholastic years the Minister is proud that he was in his undergraduate term chosen to represent his class in the third Central American Student Congress, held in Managua in 1903. Has Held Important Posts In the Public Service. In the political field Dr. Argueta has been called to posts in the public serv- |ice which usually mark the gradations into the higher realm. After success- ful practice in surgery, the young med- ico was called to the professorship in the Central University of Honduras, in Tegucigalpa, the capital. There he found time to edit the most prominent medical journal of the country and to write articles on modern sanitation and hygiene which attracted instant atten- tion and led to public meetings and re- forms along the lines suggested. capital sought for mayor the best ex- ponent of progress they elected Dr. Argueta. From mayor he was made Minister to Guatemala. ~As physician, served as president of the International Central American Office, and he has had experience in diplomacy also as minister to Guatemala. As physicians, professor of medicine and practical politician Dr. Argueta has gathered all his convictions into the weighty book, “Olancho y su Progreso,” considered his most valuable contribution to contem- parary literature. A member of the In- | ternational geographical and historic societies of Paris and of Central Amer- | ica, articles from his pen are found in | many publications. He is also a mem- | ber of the Scientific and Literary Acad- | emy of Honduras and of the Ateneos of | Honduras, Salvador and Guatemala. The Minister and his family are | pleasantly domiciled for the Winter at | 1622 Rhode Island avenue, and they are | already active in the amenities of Latin | | America and in general society. H { Senora Argueta a Member | Of Prominent Family. Senora Argueta has filled many roles | gracefully, and being the wife of a! i celebrity in four different flelds—states- | eraft, diplomacy, medicine and author- ship—she has acquired all the accom- plishments necessary to a successful re- gime in Washington. She is much younger than her distin- guished husband, and the marriage is| of comparatively recent date. There is one child. a son, about a year old. | Senora Argueta belongs to a well estab- {lished family of Tegucigalpa, and was | Ibefore her marriage Senorita Albertina | Ariaz. Of the two young ladies in the family of the Honduran Minister. | | Senorita Rosa Argueta is his sister and | Senorita Paca Ariaz is the daughter of | senora’s brother. Both will spend the| Winter in Washington and mingle ac-! tively in the Latin American and in| | eneral society. i _The Minister and all his family circle are keenly interested fn music and in | the Pan-American development in par- | ticular. Senorita Rosa is a student of instrumental music, specializing in the . piano, but the entire family play on the usual instruments of the South and sing yery well besides. They are also hospitably inclined, and have already iven many large and important func- jons for the officials of the Pan-Amer- m Union and the Central American P, With Mary and Hope, MRS. FREDERICK TILTON, Who with Mrs: Howard Baldwin of SISSON, wife and daugkters of Assistant Attorney General Sisson. ‘Underwood MRS. WILLIAM E. BROCK, With Senator Brock of Tennessee, enjoying their first Washington season. ‘Bachrach. National Officials Listed With Temporary Absentees Secretary and Mrs. Adams Return;ng to City Tomorrow—Other Notables Expected Following Brief Visits. The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Charles Francis Adams will return to Washington tomorrow from their home in Boston. - ' ‘The Secretary of Interfor and Mrs. | Wilbur, who went to Wayne, Pa., to spend Thanksgiving day with the Secre- tary’s brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Frederic M. Paist, went to New York Friday to remain for a few days. While in New York the Secre- tary dellvered the first lecture of the lyceum course sponsored by the Wom- en’s Auxiliary of Upsala College. Secre- tary and Mrys. Wilbur were guests of Representative and Mrs. Franklin W. Fort. They will return here today. The Secretary of Labor, Mr. James J. Davis, will leave Washington_the lat- ter part of the week for a short stay in Chicago. Sunday, December 8, the | Secretary will deliver an address in Pittsburgh. Senator and Mrs. Hebert Will Be Absent Over Sunday: Senator and Mrs. Felix Hebert will leave Washington at the end of the week for their home in West Warwick, R. I, to remain over Sunday. Mr. Adrien Hebert, who has been visiting his parents in their apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel for the holidays, plans to return to West War- wick the middle of the week. Mrs, Katherine gzley, member_of the House from Kentucky, with her -daughter, Mrs, Kathegine Langley Bent- |ley, has taken an apartment at the | which opens tomorrow. Mrs. Langley makes her home in Pikeville, Ky. Representative and Mrs. James M. Beck have with them over the holiday the former’s sister, Miss Beck of Phila- delphia. | Representative and Mrs. James L. | Whitley of New York will arrive in Washington today from their home in i Rochester and will be again in resi- | dence at the Mayflower, where they made their home last Spring. Representative Denison Back from Illinois Home. Representative Edward E. Denison | has arrived from his home in Marion, I 71, and has opened his apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel. | Representative and Mrs. Roy O. Mansions to the Woodley Park Towers. Representative and_Mrs. Daniel Reed and lt’heir daughter Ruth of Dunkirk, N. Y., have taken an apartment suite |at the Cavalier Hotel for the Winter. | _Representative Mary T. Norton of ' New Jersey is opening her aj today at the Mayflower for the Representative A. J. Sabath is ex- cu?i to arrive on Tuesday from his ome in Chicago and be at the Wardman Park Hotel. 'Wmm‘d for the session of Congress | Woodruff have moved from Cathedral | .| at the Chevy Chase Club, Ceremonies to Honor Group of Society Buds In National Capital Debutantes Honor Guests at Luncheons, Suppers, Din« ners and Teas When Mak- ing Formal Society Bows. Miss Janet Randolph Ball, daughter of Mrs, Watson, wife of Representative Henry Winfield Watson, will be the honor guest at a luncheon Decemher 17 of Mrs. William Conant. Miss Ball will be presented to society at a tea given by Representative and Mrs. Wat- son December 7. Miss Junia Culbertson, debutante daughter of the United States Am- bassador to Chile and Mrs. William S. Culbertson, will be the honor guests at luncheon Thursday of Mrs. Howard S. Leroy. Mrs. Wilson Ccmfum will give a luncheon December 10 for the bud. Signora Catalani, wife of the second counselor of the Italian embassy, enter- tained at luncheon Tuesday for Sig- norina _Vittoria Catalani, _debutante niece of Signor ‘Catalani. Due to the illness of Sgnora Catalani, Mrs. Dimock acted as hostess. - The. company in- cluded Countess Cornelia Szechenyi, Miss_Laura Tuckerm: iss Margar- etta Wright, Miss Anna Parkhurst, Miss Elise Alexander, Miss Jean Hay, Miss Rahel Davies, Miss Marine Jardine, Miss Betty Thorpe, Miss Helen Gary, Miss Katharine Phillips, Miss Elsie Ekengren, Baroness Astrid Ungern- Sternberg, Senorita Lucia Tessada Guz- man and Mrs. McClure Kelley, sister of the honor guests. Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Ashburn Compliment Miss Wren. Miss Mary Martha Wren will be the guest in whose honor Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Thomas Q. Ashburn will entertain at a buffet suprer Saturday evening, December 21, following her debut tea, which her parents, Col. and Mrs, Clarke C. Wren, will give at the Mayflower Hotel. Miss Ann Virginia Ashburn, debu- tante daughter of Col. and Mrs. Percy M. Ashburn, will be the guest in whose honor her uncle and aunt, Maj. Gen. and Mrs, Thomas Q. Ashburn, will give & buffet supper Monday evening, De- cember 30. The dowager, Mrs. Vanderbilt of New York, will give her first large entertain- ment of many years when on the night of December 23 she will entertain at dinner for Miss Cornelia Szechenyi and Miss Alice Szechenyi, daughters of the Minister of Hungary and Countess Szenchenyl, in her new home at 1 East | Sixty-seventh street. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzhugh Talman will entertain at & tea this afternoon from 4 to 7 o'clock to present their daughter, Miss'Marjorie Talman, to society. As- sisting Mrs. Talman will be Mrs. Al- fred J. Johnson. Mrs. Charles Pittman, Senora de Mello, Miss Anne Squire, Mrs. Henry Pitzshugh and Mrs. Benja- min' Long Edes, grandmother of the Detroit rejoined Mr. ‘Tilton at Wardman. Barrls & Bwing Social Functions Listed Events—Absentee Returning 7 The Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir Esme Howard, who was in Havana the end of the week, is expected to come to Washington shortly. The Ambassa- dor has been visiting in the West In- dies for some weeks, The Italian Ambassador, Nobile Gia- como de Martino, will go to New York the middle of the week to meet Nobil Donna Antoinette de Martino when she arrives aboard the Conte Blancamano, which is expected in New York Thurs- day, having sailed from Italy Monday. The Ambassador spent & week in New York and returned to the embassy Thursday. ‘The Ambassador of France and Mme. Claudel, will return Tuesday from New York, where they went Friday for sev- eral parties which were planned in their honor. The Ambassador and Mme. Claudel were entertained at tea yester- day by Mr. M. G. Maubossin, and their daughter, Mile. Claudel, sha honors with Miss Marion Cartier at the dinner dance which the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Plerre Cartier, gave in the Ritz Tower. Miss Cartier is a debutante in New York this season. ‘The Ambassador of Chile and Senora de Davila will have a small company lunching informally with them today. Belgian Embassy Pays Honor te Lady Johnstone. The Belgian Ambassador and Princess de Ligne will entertain at dinner to- morrow evening in honor of Lady John- stone, who is visiting former Gov. and Mrs. Gifford Pinchot. ‘The Ambassador of Germai and Frau von Prittwitz und Gaffre will entertain at dinner Friday evening, De- cember 20, in honor of the dean of the diplomatic corps, the Ambassador of Great Britain and Lady Isabella How- ard. ‘The Minister of Portugal and Vis- countess d'Alte will return Wednesday from New York, where they are spend- ing the week end. ‘The Minister of Canada and Mrs. Massey have returned from a motor trip through the South. The Minister of the Netherlands, ':end a dance given the Baltimore Country Club by Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Maslin and Miss Mary Louise Mas- [lin in honor of Miss Anne Marshall West, debutante daughter of Dr. and | Mrs. Marshall B. West. Miss Cynthia Caroline Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin D. Hill, went to Philadelphia yesterday to attend the Navy-Dartmouth foot ball game and will” return to Washington tomorrow. Miss Hill is entertaining at a luncheon ‘Tuesday at the Mayflower in compli- ment to the season's debutantes. debutante. With the bud will be Miss Long Edes, Miss Catherine Goodwin, Miss Janet Ball, Miss Priscilla ‘Totten, | Miss Ella Delaney Hunter. Miss Talman will' wear a cream taffeta gown -nd’ carry rosebuds, and her mother will be in a flowered chiffon frock. Debutante to Have Guest on Day of Her Debut. Miss Catherine Knox Berry, whose mother, Mrs. Georgla Knox Berry, issued invitations last week for her coming- out ball at the Mayflower, Friday, December 27, will have as her guest for the holdidays, Miss Mary Blackman Bass, daughter of Gen. and Mrs. Frank Bass, of shville, Tenn., who will ar- rive the day of Miss Berry's debut. She will assist at the ball. Miss Berry and Miss Bass made their debut together in Nashville at the Bellemeade Country Club Cotillon, October 24. Miss Bass is a strikingly beautiful girl and will remain here for several weeks. Miss Eleanor Morgan Crain, debutante daughter of Mrs. Robert Crain, will be the honor guest at a dinner given by Mrs. Charles Worthington, December 11, at the Chevy Chase Club. _Another dinner will be given for her December 30, by Dr. and Mrs. Louis Greene, at their home on Connecticut avenue. Mr. and Mrs, Charles A. Douglas will enter- !tain at a dinner dance, December 23, in honor of Miss Crain. Dr. Hugh H. Young and his daugh- jler, Miss Helen H. Young, will give & dinner dance in Miss Crain's honor Deceml 13. Later the guests will at~ the Pioneer Family Represented | In Debutante Circle. Miss Mary Field is, according to the prevailing phrase, the only Vanderbilt entry in the fashionable debutante world of Gotham. She is the grand- daughter five times removed of the doughty commodore, founder of the family fortunes, and is the descendant of two other eminent pioneers which antedate the Vanderbilts by 150 years. Miss Field is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam B. Osgood Pield, the lat- ter Lila Sloane, granddaughter of the late Willlam H. Vanderbilt. Fields and Osgoods figu Long Island and of Connecticut. The first Field arrived in New York in the 1650s and was among the original land- ed proprietors of Flushing. Capt. John Osgood emigated from Leiceshire in 1635 and he built a fine house in Andover, which afterward served as a meeting place, in the civic and religious sense, of the community. Susan Maria, daughter of Samuel , who figures most creditably in revolutionary annals, married Moses Field and the two names have been joined in their descendants. Miss Field is the granddaughter of Mrs. Henry White, and was among the merty group of her family circle, who cele- brated Thanksgiving day at ihe hand- lg;ne estate, near Lenox, in the Berk- shires, Miss Mary Henry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Jh'Henry. will enter- iss Caroline Sanderson, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Charles R. Sanderson, who will her debut in afternoon of the 1! Claudel and their daughter, Mlle. Reine | re among the founders of | of it equaling that S_Igciiial- News Vof Interest From the Diplomatic World ‘in Calendar of Week's Members of Corps to Capital. Jonkheer van , will go to New York Priday to attend the banquet which the St. Nicholas Society will give that evening. The Minister will be ab- sent a few days. Retiring Minister On Way to His M The retiring Minister of Mme. Samy and their family terday from New York en route to home. The Minister and Mme. Samy are among the most s who have served in and will be greatly missed, both in diplo- matic and official circles and also.among the residents of the National Capital. ‘The counselor of the German'em- bassy and Frau Kiep were hosts to a | small company at dinner last evening ‘:nd will entertain at a midday break- [ fast today. ‘The first secretary of the Peruvian embassy and Senora de Bedoys will re- turn to their apartment in Wardman Park Hotel tomorrow m’"hudl? afte: spending the week end in New York. Mornings of .N]ulic Promise Unusual Treat Many New Yorkers are coming to Washington for the first of Mrs. Law- rence Townsend's morni ‘musicales at the Mayflower We ay, and as attending concerts is possible even in the deepest and most personal mourn- ing it is probable that the members of the new cabinet who have become subscribers will attend. Mrs. Franklin ‘Terry of New York and North Carolina and her charming daughter, Miss Lil- lian Emerson, already well known here and who was presented in London last season, are coming. Also Mrs. Clarkson Runyon and her lovely debutante daughter, Miss Jane Allen Runyon, the latter a school friend of Miss Lamont, daughter of Secretary and Mrs. Lamont, will be here. Mrs. Runyon and her daughter are originally from New Jer- sey and they are especially interested in Miss Anna Case, who at this first musicale, as does the Metropolitan Opera Co. baritone, De Luca. While Miss Case, who is a prof of the Edge family in New Jersey, has a large following here, the great De Luca has never been heard in recital here before, only in opera. The same number of luncheon parties of former seasons will follow the musical mornings,’ and if such a thing is possible they will be more ‘brilliant than in. previous years. Handiwork o.f Veterans Listed in Christmas Sale An annual event looked forward to with great interest is the .exhibition and Christmas sale of articles made by the patients of Walter Reed General Hospital, Army Medical Center, Tues- day, from 9 in the morning until 9 o'clock in the evening, in the main building, west wing. The "articles show the great range of work made in the occupational therapy department by maimed of the World War, and include all sorts of works of art basketry, batik, block orinting, jewelry and metal work, leather articles, many of them showing beauti- tul tooling, pottery, mechanical toys, weaving and woodwork. To those who annually attend these exhibitions and sales the progress the men have made in their work is remarkable, much of professionals. . Engagements vto_WeJ Formally - Announced Dr. and Mrs, Rhett Stuart announ the engagement of their daughter Caro- Iyn to Dr. Daniel D. V. Stuart, jr. - Miss Stuart made her debut four seasons ago, and Dr. Stuart is the son of Rear Ad- miral and Mrs, Stuart. Mr. and Mrs, Anton Heitmuller an- | nounce the engagement of their daugh- ter, Mrs. Marian H. Boothe, - to James Irving Dodds of Buffalo, N. M Senate Ladies' Lunel\eo; Set for December 10 The Senate Ladies’ Luncheon Club will meet Tuesday, December 10, for g;nmmncm«;x&ammm ference room of Building.