Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1929, Page 55

SOCIETY ' SECTION Che Sunday Star, WASHINGTON, ,D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1929. MRS. JAMES P. STONE, Wife of the vice chairman of the Federal Farm Board, living: at the Mayflower. Rachrach Capital City Laying Plans For Great Social Activity In the Very Early Future Rush for Dates Expecte& at Close of Official Mourning Period—Busy Days Ahead in Official Circles. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. ASHINGTON is on the eve of a great social rush when on Wednesday the 30 days of official mourning for the death of Secretary of War Good expires. While the President and Mrs. Hoover have had some guests to dine with them they have religiously observed the period in deference to the memory of the President’s friend and cabinet officer. Wednesday evening they will entertain at dinner the Ambassador of Japan and Mme. Debuchi and the Japanese delegation to the London Naval Conference. The day following Christmas day they will entertain for the President- elect of Mexico. Y FTHERE seems to be an inordinate desire to press every event post- poned on account of mourning into the first few days following Wednesday, and that day in particular is a busy one. For the Am- bassador of Japan and Mme. Debuchi and the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Adams, the days are especially full ones, the Japanese dele- gates to the London Naval Conference arriving in the Capital to- morrow to remain until Thursday afternoon, when they will leave for New York. So large are several of the entertainments planned by the Ambassador that the Mayflower Hotel will be used for the purpose instead of the embassy. ABINET hostesses will observe Wednesday afternoon at home for the first and only time until the New Year, when officials will have returned from their holiday home visits and society will be in full swing. There will be several Senate ladies observing Thursday, and as for the Supreme Court ladies, they most punctiliously ob- serve Monday, only illness or absence from the city preventing it. OCIETY will meet Secretary and Mrs. Hurley, for the first time since the Secretary's elevation to a cabinet post, at a reception ‘Wednesday night, when they will greet the guests at the first of the series of Army dances at the Willard, postponed on account of of- ficial mourning. Neither the Secretary nor Mrs. Hurley is a stranger to Capital society and that they will be constantly feted goes with- out saying. No appointment the President has made has met with more universal approval. LEADING up to Christmas night is a series of balls and dances, events overlapping, both for the afternoons and nights. Christ- mas eve the United States Ambassador to Chile and Mrs. Culbertson will give a ball for their debutante daughter, Miss Junia Culbertson, who already has met other debutantes and been much feted. The first dance of the series being given by the Friday evening dancing class will take place at the Willard this week, and this brilliant club will continue their dances throughout the Winter. Mrs. Parker W. West is in charge of arrangements. NOTHER charming event of this week is the second of the Navy and Marine Corps dances, also to take place at the willard, and the dance of Thursday night will be preceded by many dinner parties, as will the Army dance the previous night. One of the sprightliest functions of the entire season—one that fairly brims with youth—is the midshipman and cadet ball Christmas night at the Mayflower. HE Vice President and Mr. and Mrs. Gann, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Summerall, Representative and Mrs. Adam Wyant, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. B. Frank Cheatham, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Clarence C. Wil- liams, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Frank R. Keefer and others of the Navy, with many in official life and private society, are sponsoring the ball for the embryo soldiers and sailors, and no matter what other dancing event may turn up for that night, the debutantes and the sweethearts of the group of cadets and midshipmen will be there to see that they do not lack partners. Honors Multiplying For Debutante List In National Capital Tea Dances, Dinners and Balls Included in Progrnm of Presentation Ceremo- nies Scheduled for Holi- days. Mrs. Hoch, wife of Representative Homer Hoch, will entertain at a tea dance December 23, at the Congres- sional Club, 2001 New Hampshire ave- nue, for her subdebutante daughter, Miss Jean Hoch, in' honor of Miss Junia Culbertson, debutante daughter of the United States Ambassador to Chile and Mrs. William 8. Culbertson. Miss Hoch will have an interesting group of young ladies assisting her, in- cluding Miss Caroline Hyde, daughter of the Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. Hyde; Miss Margaret Leather- wood, daughter of Representative and Mrs. Elmer O. Leatherwood; Miss Hen- rietta_Allen, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Henry J. Allen; Miss Jean Sum- mers, daughter of Representative and Mrs. Summers; Miss Catherine Evans, daughter of Representative and Mrs. Evans; Miss Marian Jardine, daughter of the former Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs, Willam N. Jardine; Miss Elizabeth Michener, daughter of Rep- resentative and Mrs. Michener; Mi Mary Swing, daughter of Representa- tive and Mrs. Philip D. Swing. Also assisting will be Mr. Wharton Hoch, & Junior at the Northwestern University, ‘who will have with him a group of col- lege and academy students. The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Seymour Lowman will present their daughter, Miss Kath- erine Lowman, at a tea dance Friday fif!erm)on in the ball room of the May- lower. Dinner Dance to Honor Gen. Cheatham’s Daughter. Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Benjamin Frank Cheatham will give a dinner dance Saturday evening in the garden of the Hotel Mayflower for their debutante daughter, Miss Virginia Cheatham, Miss Mary Martha Wren will make her debut at a tea dance to be given by her parents, Col. and Mrs. Clarke Wren, Saturday, in the ball room of the Mayflower, Col. and Mrs. Charles R. Sanderson will entertain at a debutante ball in honor of their daughter, Miss Caroline Sanderson, Thursday in'the grand ball room of the Mayflower. Miss Susan Kintner, debutante daugh- ter of Capt. and Mrs, Edwin G. Kinther, will be the guest in whose honor Mr. and Mrs. W. Preston Gibson and thewr daughter, Miss Betty Kininer, will en- in at a dance Tuesday eveniny the Manor Club. 7 mia Comdr. and Mrs. John W. Morse will give a debutante ball for their daugh- ter, Miss Frances Morse, Saturday in the ball room of the Mayflower, Mrs. Eric Swenson entertained at a tea in her home yesterday to present her daughter, Miss Margreta Swenson. As- sisting Mrs. Swenson were Mrs, F. Bag- ley Wallace, Mrs. Howe Totten, Mry. Daniel W. Knowlton, Mrs. Mason Pat- rick, Mrs. Dwight Dickinson, jr., Mrs. John R. Dallett and Mrs. Albin C. Swenson of Locust, N. J., sister-in-law of the hostess. The debutante had witn her_her cousin, Miss Mary Swenson of EVEN more youthful than the middies and cadet dance will be the Cinderella dance at the Willard the night of December 28, under the direction of Miss Minnie Hawk. Mme. Debuchi, wife of the Ambassador of Japan; Mme. Prochnick, Mrs. Richard Wilmer Bolling, Mrs. William D. Chandler, Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, Mrs. John Spauld- ing Flannery, Mrs. Robert V. Fleming, Mrs. Frank S. Hight, Mrs. Joho Phillip ‘Hiif, Mrs. William F. Sowers, Mrs. D. C. Stapleton, Mrs. Hewett Wells, Mrs. Royal T. McKenna and Mrs. Hayne Ellis are among the sponsors. RS. LAWRENCE TOWNSEND’S morning of music Wednesday at the Mayflower will be about the most brilliant daylight event of the week and many luncheon parties will follow the recital. Cabinet Ladies at Home To Callers Wednesday The wives of the cabinet officers will be at home Wednesday afternoon and will receive Wednesday afternoons through the season with the exception of Christmas day. Mrs. R. M. Kauffmann will not be at home tomorraw. Y Mrs. Patterson to Honor Group of Debutantes Mrs. Rushmore Patterson has sent out cards for a Supper dance which she is giving at the Willard December 30 in Tonor of four of the season's debutantes, Miss Loranda Prochnik, Miss Elsie Ekengren, Miss Laura Walcott Tucker- man and Miss Margaretta Bayard Wright. " (Continued on Second Page.) Col. and Mrs. M;;mb Hostssat Costume Ball Col. and Mrs. Augustus C. Macomb were hosts at a delightful costume ball given last evening in the Mayflower in compliment to about 200 members of the young soclety group. Mrs. Macomb wore a beautifu] Co- lonial costume of blue Dresden silk, made in bouffant style, with a small black hat trimmed with pink rosebuds. Col. Macomb also wore a Colonial eds- tume made of blue velvet with lace rills at the cuffs. Their son, Comdr. Alexander Ma- comb, U. 8. N, appeared in a Greek soldier's costume with red fez that he had %rocu\'zd while on duty in Athens Mr. Philip Macomb, their other son, represented a toreador in a black vel- vet suit embroidered with gold, and a red satin cape lined with yellow. A buffet supper was served at mid- night at small tables placed in the boxes around the ball room, where the company MRS¥YOUNGQUIST, ‘Wife of the new Assistant Attorney General in charge of prohi- bition, and their Harls & S g MRS PHILIP "M. BROWN Of New*York, wife-of therformer Minister«to Hon= duras;-atithe:Mayflower for(the. Winter.. Underwood. " Vice President Will Honor Ambassador at Dinner With Mrs. Gann as Hostess, Will Entertain for Sir Esme and Lady Howard Early Next Month. Other Events Listed. The Vice President and his brother- in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs, Edward Everett Gann, are issuing invitations for dinner Saturday evening, January 4, in compliment to the retiring Ambassador of Great Britain and Lady Isabella Howard: . The Chief Justice and Mrs, Willlam Howard Taft will entertain at luncheon today. Mrs. Taft will be the guest, in whose honor Mrs. Samuel Jordan Graham will entertain at luncheon Friday in the: Chinese room of the Mayflower, Representative and Mrs. S. Wallace Dempsey will entertain at tea Satur- day afternoon, in compliment to the Governor of Panama and Mrs. Harry Burgess, who will arrive in New York today and come to Washington to spend the Christmas holidays. Judge and Mrs. Samuel Jordan Graham entertained at dinner last eve- ning in their home. Covers were laid for 18. The Commissioner of Prohibition and Mrs. Doran will entertain at_ dinner December 31, at the Cosmos Club, in honor of ‘the Assistant Attorney General and Mrs. Youngquist. Brig. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley will entertain at dinner Saturday eve- ning at the Carlton Hotel. Capt. and Mrs. Reed List Guests for Dinner. Capt. and Mrs. Paul Reed will enter- tain at dinner in the Willard Thursday night preceding the Navy and Marine Corps officer® dance. Covers will be laid for 18 guests. the eveoing.| Mr, and Mn;fie@dln Prentice Noyes will entertain a small company at tea tomorrow in compliment to the former’s brother-in-law. and sister, Comdr. Smith Hempstone, U. 8. N., and Mrs. Hempstone, and Mr. and Mrs. James Andrew Vaughan, the latter a cousin of Mr. Noyes. Comdr. Hempstone, who has been on duty at Annapolis for several years, will leave immediately after Christmas for his new post on board the U. S. Tennessee at Puget Sound, and Mrs. Hempstone will remain here until later in the season. Mrs. Vaughan was before her mar- riage, December 6, Mrs. Elizabeth Boyd Reed, daughter of Mrs. Theodore Lau- rence Pomeroy of Greenwich, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan will spend several days in Washington with Mr. and Mrs. Noyes. Mr. David Edward Finley will be host at dinner tomorrow evening. Mrs. Lawrence Townsend will enter- tain at luncheon Wednesday in the Mayflower in compliment to the artists on the program at her musicale that mornirig, Senorita Emma Otero, Cuban coloratura soprano, and Mr. Richard Crooks, one of America’s foremost tenors. Others who will entertain at lunch- eon Wednesday in the Mayflower fol- lowing the concert will be Mrs. James Couzens, Mrs. Joe Crail, Mme. Roso and Mrs. Lindsay Russell. Mrs. Ralph Richards will entertain at dinner Christmas night for her daugh- ter, Miss Betty Richards, the party go- ing later to the midshipman and cadet ball at the Mayflower. ‘Mrs. Hennen Jennings will be hostess (Con! o Segond Page:) family. Ewing. Capitul Society Folk Have Guests Listed For Holiday Period Home Enterfnining Noted. Mnny Repreaentativeu of Official Circle to Spend Christmas in Home Cities. Mrs. Walter F. Brown, wife of the Postmaster General, will leave today for her home in Toledo, Ohio, where the Postmaster General will join Mrs. Brown there for Christmas and they will return to their apartment in the ardman Park Hotel shortly before New Year. Mrs. Brown will not be at home De- cember 18 owing to her absence from ‘Washington. Senator and Mrs. Alben W. Barkley will have with them for the Christmas holidays their daughter, Miss Laura Barkley, who will arrive Saturday from Newcombe, Ky., where she is a student at the Newcombe University. Mr. David Barkley will also come at the end of the week from his home in New York. Miss Barkley will be accompanied to Washington by two of her schoolmates, Miss Betty Robinson of Shreveport, La., ;nd Miss Mary Sumpter of Nashville, ‘enn, Senator and Mrs. John Thomas and their daughter, Miss Mary Thomas, plan to close their apartment at the Ward- man Park Hotel for a short time and will motor in the South during the Christmas holidays. Senator and Mrs. Felix Hebert and their daughters will close their apart- ment in the Wardman Park Hotel and will leave Friday for their home in West Warwick, R. 1. They will return to Washington and open their apartment Monday, January 6. Senator and Mrs. Henry J. Allen and their daughter, Miss Henrietta Allen, have as their guest in their apartment in the Mayflower Miss Dorothy Pearson of Montclair, N. Will Spend Holiday Week At Home in Chicago. Representative and Mrs. M. Alfred Michaelson expect to return to their home in Chicago at the end of next 'I'eet: to rem;ln mfl after the first of the year when y will in o] gml‘;l apartment at the erd‘gn‘ln P?rxl: otel. Representative and Mrs. Henry Allen Cooper have closed their home in Ra- cine, Wis, and returned to the Wash. Lrégmn Hotel for the congressional sea- Representative and Mrs. Ernest R. Ackerman will close their apartment in the Wardman Park Hotel the end of the week and go to their home in Plainfield, N. J., to pass the Christmas holidays. The Assistant to the Attorney Gen- eral and Mrs. John Lord O'Brian will be joined in their apartment in_the new addition of the Wardman Park Hotel by their daughters—Miss Francis O'Brian, who will come from Sweet Briar College; Miss Alison O'Brian from Smith College and Miss Janet O'Brian from the Boston Straton College at Boston, Mass. They will remain through S. | the holiday season. The First Assistant Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Joseph Dixon will be jolned in thelr apartment In the Ward- man Park Hotel by their daughter, Miss Betty Dixon, who will come from Rad- cliffe Collegé, and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs, Alexander Dean, who will come from their home in New Haven, Conn., to remain through the Lolidays. Commissioner General of Immigration (Continued on Second Page.) Friday Evenil:d Dancing Class Schedules Ball The first dance of the series being given by the Friday Evening Dance Class will be held in the Willard Friday evening. Mrs. Parker W. West is in charge of the arrangements. . Navy-Marine Officers’ Ball Set for Evening of Dec. 19 The Navy and Marine Corps officers’ dance, which was postponed due to the death of Secretary of War Good, will be given at the Willard next Thursday night;-December 19. Lieut. R*A. Shot- well is {0 charge of the arrangements. Tales of Well Known Folk ~ MRS:>JAMES'L4WHITLEY, With Representative Whitley of New. York. at the Mayflower for the season. ‘Underwood. ‘The Ambassador of Mexico and Senors. de Tellez are planning a re- ception Saturday-evening, December 28, in honor of the President-elect of Mex- ico, Senor Pascual Ortiz Rubio, who will be in Washington for several days after Christmas. The Ambassador and the President-elect will receive the guests at 10 o'clock as Senora de Tellez is still confined to the hospital follow- ingm an operation about ten days ago. e Aml lor _of Mexico, Senor Don Manuel C. Tellez, returned to ‘Washington yesterday from New York ‘where he made a brief visit. The Ifalian Ambassador and Nobil Donna Antoinetfe de Martino will give a large ball Wednesday evening, Jan- uary 8, in celebration of the marriage of His Royal Highness‘the Prince of Pledmonte, to Her Royal Highness, Princess Jose of Belgium. The Ambassador and Nobil de Mar- tino will be hosts at dinner Wednesday evening in honor of Representative and Mrs. John Q. Tilson. A large reception was given last ev- ening by the Ambassador and Nobil de Martino for* the members of the Italy- American Soclety and of the Archaeo- logical Society. The reception followed a lecture which Prof. Bruno Roselll of Vassar College gave on “The Second Millenfum of Virgil” and the guests numbered about 300 and included members of the diplomatic corps, the Senate and House and smart residen- tial society. The president of both so- Hill of the Italy-American Society and Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor of the Archaeo- logical Society. Will Spend Christmas Holidays In Havana. The Ambassador of Cuba and Se- nora de Ferrara will leave Washing- ton Sunday to spend Christmas in Ha- vana. They will entertain at dinner ‘Thursday at the embassy, when among the guests will be Senorita Emma Otero, famous Cuban singer, who will sing at a concert at the Mayflower Hotel. Mrs. Lawrence Townsend will entertain at luncheon in honor of Seno- rita Otero. Senora de Ferrera will be at home Friday afternoon. The Belgian Ambassador and Prin- cess de Ligne will entertain at dinner Tuesday evening. The Ambassador of Germany and Prau von Prittwitz und Gaffron will entertain at dinner Friday evening. ‘The Japanese Ambassador and Mme. Debuchi will entertain informally ac dinner tomorrow evening, when the guests will be the members of the Jap- anese delegation to the maval confer- ence, to be held in London next montn. They will be hosts at a large dinner Tuesday evening and the following day they will entertain at a reception in honor of their countrymen. ‘The newly appointed Ambassador of Peru, Senor Manuel Frayre Santenden, is expected to arrive in Washington in February. He is now Peruvian Minister in London. ‘The retiring Ambassador, Dr. Hernan Velarde, will probably leave Washington shortly before the arrival of his sue- cessor, ‘The Minister of Switzerland and Mme. Peter entertained informally ac dinner last evening at the legation. Envoy and Mme. Prochnik Entertaining Visitors. - ‘The Minister of Austria and Mme. Prochnik will be joined Wednesday by the latter's mother, Mrs. Edward P. James, who will remain with them over Christmas. Mr. Edward P. James and Miss Violet James will arrive later to spend Christmas with the Minister ana Mme. Prochnik. ‘The Minister and Mme. Prochnik will entertain at luncheon Thursday mn honor of the mayor of Havana and Senora de Gomez. January 14 they wiu be honor guests at dinner in Phila- delphia of Mr. and Mrs. Gustave A. Heckscher, preceding the dance they will give for Mrs. Heckscher's daughter, Miss Eleanor Allen Edmunds. Mr. and Mrs. Heckscher will also entertain » cleties were present, Dr. David Jayne | Reception Planned to Honor President-Elect of Mexico Ambassador and Senora de Tellez to Bev His Hosts—Other Important Social Events in Diplomatic Circle. Miss Loranda Prochnik, daughter ot the Minister; Miss Laura Tuckerman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. ‘Tuckerman; Miss Carolyn Roebling ana Miss Margaretta Wright. ‘The Minister of the Netherlands and Mme. van Royen have with them for the holidays their younger son, Mr. Robert D. van_Royen, ‘Who arrived re- cently on the Berengaria from Europe. Mr. J. Herrmann van Royen, elder son of the Minister and Mme. van Royen, who is studying in Paris, will not come to Washington until January. The Minister and Mme. van Royen will be hosts at dinner Saturday. eve- ning. ‘The Minister of the Irish Free Staw and Mrs. Michael MacWhite will leavw the Capital today to spend a week in Kansas City. They will stop on the re- turn trip in Chicago for a few days. Minister and Mme. Wi Honor U. S. Envoy. The Minister of China and Mme. Wu zfl :;ltehfl-lln n‘ dglmer Thursday eve- 3 onor of the newly appointed United States Minister to Chglpl? Mr, Nelson T. Johnson, The Minister and Mme. Wu will be hosts at dinner again Monday evening, January 13. The Minister of Poland, Mr. Tytus Fllipowicz, left the city yesterday to spend the ‘week end in Philadelphia. He will return to Washington tomorrow. The Minister of Jugoslavia, Dr. Leo- nide Pitamic, has returned to Washing- %{onkl!ter spending a few days in New ork. ‘The Minister of Bolivia, Senor Don Eduardo Diez de Medina, and the first secre! of the legation, Senor Don George de la Barra, are spending the week end in New York. ey will re- turn to Washington Wednesday. ‘The commercial counselor ef the British embassy and Lady Broderick have taken an apartment in the new addition of the Wardman Park Hotel for the Winter. ‘The assistant military attache of the Prench embassy, Maj. Georges The- nault, left Washington this morning to spend a few days in New York. Senor Luis Coll Pacheco and Senor Nicolas Veloz, delegates from Venezuela to the Pan-American Conference on Customs of Procedure and Port For- mlllltlae. sailed Wednesday for Vene- zuela. Mayor and Scn:ra 'de. Gomez Of Havana Coming to City ‘The mayor of Havana and Senora de Gomez, the former a son of the former President of Cuba, will arrive in Wash- ington Wednesday to spend _several days. - They will be guests of the Am- bassador and Senora de Ferrara, who will entertain informally at dinner for them the evening of their arrival. ‘The distinguished visitors will be guests at luncheon of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend following her Wednesday morning musicale. Friday the mayor and Senora de Gomez will be guests at a luncheon, tea and dinner at the Cuban embassy ‘and the following evening they will be guests at the dinner the Ambassador of Japan and Mme. Dubuchi will give. Be- fore their departure Sunday for their native country they will be the honor guests at a luncheon given by the Am- bassador and Senora de Ferrara, when the guests will be members of the em- bassy staff. Dinner Parties Listed To Precede Army Dance Many interesting parties are. being planned to precede the first Army dance at the Willard Wednesday night, De- cember 18. The Secretary of War and Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley will be the honor guests at a dinner being given by Maj. and Mrs. Leonard L. Gerow. Others giving parties are the Chief of Staff and Mrs, Charles P. Summerall, Col. and . Mrs. E. V. Bookmiller, Maj. and Mrs. C. Garlington, Maj. and Mrs. H. H. Hawkins, Maj. and Mrs. Howard David E:up of young people at dinner before dance, when the guests will incl son, who are.stationed at Bolling Field, jude | and Capt. and Mrs. J. A. B. Gibson, &