Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1929, Page 19

SOCIETY will be the honor guest at a dance this evening of Mr. and Mrs. W. Preston Gibson and their daughter, Miss Betty Gibson. Mrs. James Alexander Lyon enter- tained at luncheon today in honor of Miss Katherine Berry, debutante daugh- ter of Mrs. Georgia Knox Berry. The table had Japanese decorations and there were Japanese favors for the guests, who numbered 12. The Assistant Secietary of the Navy and Mrs. Ernest Lee Jahncke will re- celve in honor of the officers and ladies of the Navy Thursday afternoon, De- cember 19, from 4 to 7 o'clock at the Mayfiower Hotel. Miss Margaret J. Olmstead of Front Royal, Va., who will make her debut at & tea dance to be given this after- noon at the Mayflower by her uncle and aunt, Dr, and Mrs. Henry Cook Macatee, will be assisted by her cousins, Miss Macatee; also Miss_Isabel Lamberton, Miss Emiscah Gale Davis, Miss Alberta Perley, Miss Elvira Johnson, Miss Pris- cilla Totten, Miss Mary Ingraham Henry, Miss Sophie Beale, Miss Grace Moffat Stuart and Miss Betty Trescott The debutante will wear a lovely gown of white satin and will carry pink roses Mrs. Macatee will be assisted by the debutante’s mother, Mrs. Walter G. Olmstead, and Mrs. Baltimore Calvert, Mrs. B. Paulding Lamberton, Mrs. Wil- liam Laird Duniop, St and Miss Madge k. Following the tea dance Mrs, Macatee will entertain at dinner in the palm court of the hotel for Miss Olmstead and the young ladies who assisted her in receiving, with their escorts, namely: Lynn Orville de Lashmut, Page Hufty Jack Marshall, Jennings Bailey, Dun- can Clark, Clark Brandt, Randolph Butler, James Hamillon Brown. Mar- shall Mickerson, Gordon Minnigerode, William Hoge, William Jeffries Chew- ning, jr., and Daniel Partridge. Misses Mary and Gertrude Macatee | have returned from their respective col- Jeges, Smith and Bryn Mawr. to spend the holidays with their parents, Dr. and Mrs. Macatee, and Miss Olmstead is passing the Winfer with her uncle and aunt in Washington. Lieut. Comdr. and Mrs. John Morse will have with them for the Christmas holidays their debutante daughter, Miss Frances Morse, and their two sons, Malvern Morse, from Princeton University. and John Morse, from Choate School. Mr. Ene Entertaining Kinswoman From Princeton, N. J. Mr. William Phelps Eno has as his guest. ster-in-law, Mrs. Henry Lane Eno, in Princeton, N. Mrs. Charles Denby will go to Phila- delphia this week to visit her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Denby, jr. and make the acquaintance of their tiny son, who was born Sun-, day. The former United States Ambassa- dor to France, Mr. Hugh Campbell Mary Macatee and Miss Gertrude | from Vassar College, | has come from her home, J. | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1929. Wallace, is spending a fortnight at White Sulphur Springs. Mrs. Delos Blodgett will entertain at luncheon tomorrow at the Mayflower, following Mrs. Lawrence Townsend’s morning_concert, to be given by Emma Otero, Cuban coloratura soprano, and Richard Crooks, American tenor. Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Austin C. Cron will have with them for the Christmas holidays their son, Cadet Luclus Nash | Cron, U. 8. M. C. |~ December 27 Mr. F. W. Cron and Cadet Lucius Nash Cron are giving & | dinner dance at the Army, Navy and | Marine Country Club for 14. | Col. and Mrs. Albert E. Truby, the Misses Truby and Master Jack Truby, who have recently come from Governors Island, N. Y., to Washington for station, | are now living at 3403 Rodman street | northwest. Mrs. A. H. Putney and Mis. A. J. Opyster entertained a small company at | lunch today at the Carlton Hotel, in | compliment” to Miss Gourley Edwards, | whose marriage to Capt. Gouverneur | Hoes takes place December 21. The | guests included Mrs. W. Morgan Shus- | ter, Mrs. Edwin S. Puller, Mrs. Gordon Gordon-Smith. Mrs, Mrs. Boyd Alexander, Mme. Stephan | Bisseroff and Mrs. Richard De Lambert. Mrs. Murray Galt Motter has with her for the Christmas holidays at her | home _on Nineteenth street, her daugh- | ter, Mrs. Edgar Grim Miller, jr., of | Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y. and her three children. Later in the wesk Mr. Miller will join his family and Mrs. Motter’s sons, Mr. Vail Motter of | Princeton University and Mr. James T. | Motter of New York City, will arrive. Mr. | have and Mrs. Alexander M. Bull will with them for the holidays, at | their home, 2017 Belmont road, their sons, Mr. James Taylor Buil, now at | Cornell, and | Bull, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. George Faber Downey will entertain at a Christmas luncheon, when a number of their rela- tives from out of town will be in the company. The group will include Mrs. | John Kirkman Berry, Miss Betty Berry | and Mr. John K. Berry, Mr. and Mrs. | Fairfax Landstreet, all of New York; Mrs. F. Stuart Landstreet, ir., who was Miss Eleanor Hoover of Washington; Miss Kate Downey, Miss Mary Land- street and Mr. and Mrs. Fairfax Dow- | ney, son and daughter-in-law of the | hosts; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bealle | Davis of New York and Mr. William D. Hoover. Mr. and Mrs. Fairfax Downey will have their two children with them, and Mrs. Stuart Landstreet, her three youngsters. Mr. and Mrs. Davis will spend Christmas with her parents, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Edwin St. John Greble. Before Beautiful Colored Hand- Embroidered Guest Towels BOUDOIR PILLOWS PILLOWCASES LUNCHEON SETS | MEN'S AND WOMEN'S HANDKERCHIEFS Exclusive and Attractive, of Fure Linen Special Low Prices EMBROIDERY SHOP 227829 11th St. Ray Ovid Hall, | Midshipman William 1. | her marriage, Davis was Miss Mildred Greble. Mrs. Washington Hostess at Tea to Lee Memorial Committee. Mrs. Joseph E. Washington has been appointed by the national board of di- rectors of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation director for the District of Columbia. This foundation has recently been formed with the view of pur- chasing Stratford in Westmorland County, Va. the birthplace of Gen. Robert E. e, and also_two singners ot the Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee and Francis Light- foot Lee. Mrs. Washington is inviting her committee, composed of some of the most prominent women in Wash- ington, to take a cup of tea with her this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in her apartment at 1302 Eighteenth street. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan D. Ransdell, with their nephew, Robert Melvin Du- lin, will entertain ‘at their home, 1745 Massachusetts avenue southeast, an in- Mrs, 31, from 10 to 2 o'clock p.m., in honor | of ‘another nephew, Ensign Arthur Dun- can Marks, and Mrs. Marks, who were recently married at the Little Church Around the Corner, New York City Assisting Mrs. Ransdell will be Mrs. Willlam' 0. Marks and Miss Klity rown. Mr. Ralph Snowden Hill has with him his mother, Mrs. Eugene Francis Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Howard Jones of New York will come to Wash- ington for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Evans are in residence at 2500 Massachusetts avenue for the season. Mrs. Robert L. Owen, wife of former Senator Owen. has returned to their apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel after visiting in St. Louis, Lieut. Thomas E. Renaker, U, S. N., | is passing a short time at the Wardman Park Hotel. ‘The misses de Hellenbrandt, cele- orated Hungarian artists, are guests at the Mayflower, accompanied by their parents, Dr. and Mrs. R. T. de Hellen- | branth, and their brother, Mr. John de Hellenbranth. Mrs. G. Bryan Pitts has gone to Palm L L GOWNS L T T formal New Year eve party, December | reslan 7~9~11~13 G St.N. At Less Than Cost!! QOur Entire Stock of FUR-TRIMMED Beach and with her mother, Mrs. John M. Thomas of Milwaukee, has opened her villa on the ocean front. Mr. Pitts will join her the end of the week with a group of guests, who will remain with them through the holidays. Mrs. William Wolff Smith will give | the last of her book reviews in her | series, “Books Talked About,” for this month Thursday of this week at 11:30 o'clock am. at the Willard Hotel. Fol- lowing her lecture she will entertain at luncheon, having as her guests Mrs. Faye-Cooper Cole, wife of the noted | anthropologist, and herself the author of “Savage Gentlemen,” a story of ex- periences in the Philippines; Mrs. E. Richard Gasch, Mrs, Nina Swalm Reed and Mrs. Daniel C. Chace, “A Preface to Morals,” Lippmann, and the “Class of 1902," by the German author Ernest Gleaser, now editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung. will be the books reviewed by Mrs. | Smith this week. Dr. Donelle Fergus Anne Symington of Toronto, Ontario, | are at the Dodge Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Childress en- tertained a company of 12 at dinner | 1ast evening at Le Paradis. | Yuletide Dinner for Foreign Students in Capital. | The second annual Yuletide dinner | for foreign students in the Capital City was held last night at the Young Women's Christian_ Association under the nauspices of the world-fellowship | committee headed by Miss Helen Hud- | son, with members of that committee and other well known Washingion women as hostesses of the occasion, and with foreign-born guests living at pres- ent in Washington as guests of honor. The program of the evening, ren- dered almost entirely by the guests themselves, was most interesting, pre- senting, as it did, musical numbers from foreign lands, following a highly orig- inal Introduction by Miss Hudson, a sort of “Who's Who, and Why,” for the information of the hostesses and guests alike. There was a Mexican dance by Miss Ruth_Sedgwick, accompanied by Mr. | Jose Tercero; a group of Chinese songs by Miss Yah Chuan Wang: a see-saw duet by Mr. and Mrs. Theodore ROff; e W HATS P ] 1- | by Walter | Miss Taise Stednichenko told a Russian Christmas story, and Mi. B. Zaffirl and Mr, Antonio Diaz played a string duct, utilizing a Filipino guitar and bandena. Then came Christmas carols sung by hostesses and guests, led by Miss Lucy Street, national director of music of the Y. W. C. A, and finally, a “Merry Christmas” from Mrs. Thomas Edwin Brown, president of the board of di- rector of the association. ‘The dinner guests represented 12 for- eign_countries, including China, Japan, Philippines, Denmark, Switzerland, Eng- land. Costa Rica, Porto Rico, Germany, Spain, Canada and Russia. Student's from the Library of Congress, Brookings School, American University, George Washington University and other col- |leges and departments of the Govern- menl were present. | Arrangements for this pre-Christmas dinner this season were in the hands lof a number of committees, including Mrs. John Nicolson, Miss Margaret Jones, Miss Louise Tuers and other DULIN & members of the world fellowship com- mittee of the association. Among the members of that committee who acted as hostesses last night were Miss Hud- son, Miss Heloise Brainard, Mrs. John Coxhead, Mrs. Roscoe Dazgett, Mrs. Harry E. Hull, Mrs. Harry W. Frantz, | Mrs. Arthur Hummell, Mrs. M. P. Jen- | nings-Jones, Miss Margaret Jones, Miss Annie D'Armand Marchand, Mrs. Wil- liam F. McDowell, Mrs. John Nicolson, Mrs. Camilio Oslas, Mrs. H. E. Sherifl. Mrs. George Winchester Stone, Edna Pyle, Miss Louise Tuers and Mrs. Charles E. Wood. Mr. Recaredos G. Durham will enter- tain at tea this afternoon at the Graf- ton in compliment to Mr. and Mrs. | Reginald Goodhue Taber when Mrs. Brainard H. Warner will act as hostess for him Among those invited are Col. Wade H. Cooper, the Hon. Elizabeth Churchill, daughter of Lord Churchill, and Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Richardson. Among the New Year eve parties al- MARTIN HOURS: 8:45 AM. to 6 P.M. Sugaestions~ Solid Silver and Plated Bifts Sketched—Plated Silver Service of 5 pieces; panelled Colonial design. Sugar bowl and creamer gold-lined ....................... 365 2-pc. Sugar -and Cream Sets of solid silver, gold-lined. Two styles, one a very new design. Sterling Silve tall ... Sterling Silver Comports. different designs. Bright and Salt and Peppers. Sterling. Set of Bouillon Cups of sterling si Set of 6, cased Goblets of solid er 3.Pc. Sterling After Dinner Coffee Set; coffee pot, and cream pitcher............ 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