Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1929, Page 8

SOCreTY SOCIETY First of Official Entertainments for Chief Execcutive and First Lady Given Last Evening. > President and Mrs. Hoover re honor guests at dinner last_evening of the Secretary| state and Mrs. Henry L. Stimson, who entertained _at nistoric estate, Woodley. The company_included the United States Ambassador to Mexico and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, former Secretary of State and Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, for-! mer Attorney General, Mr. George W. Wickersham; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Page, son and daughter-in-law of the late United States Ambassador to Great Britain; the Rev. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, Dr. James R. Angell, president of Yale University, and Mrs. Angell; Mr. end Mrs, Landon K Thorns, Miss Candace Stimson, sister of the Secretary, and Mr. Bronson Winthrop, and Capt. Eugene A. Regnier. The Ambassador of France and Mme. Claudel entertained a company of ten informally at luncheon yesterday. Dinner Party Tonight In Netherlands Legation. The Minister of the Netherlands and Mme. van Royen will entertain at din- ner this evening. The Minister of Nicaragya and Stnora de Sacasa will entertain at a dance this evening from 9 to 12 o'clock in the legation, at 2401 Fifteenth street, to present their daughter, Senorita Maria Sacasa. Senator and Mrs. D. O. Hastings and | Miss Elsi» Saxton went yesteriay to their home in Wilmington, where they will pass Christmas. Senator end Mrs. Hastings and Miss Saxton will return to their apartment in the Wardman Park Hotel January 6. Representative and Mrs. Richard 5. Aldrich wiil entertain at tea this after- noon in their home, at 1601 Massachu- setts avenue, when they will present the latter's daughter, Miss Dora Innis White. Assisting Mrs. Aldrich will be Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, Mrs, Fleming New- bold, Mrs. John F. Wilkins, Mrs. Henry Benning Spencer, Miss Katharine E. Wilkins, M Louise Spencer, Mrs. James F. Curtis, Mrs. Tracy Dows, Mrs. Nathan C. Wyeth, Miss Josephine Pat- ten and Mrs. Claude Branch. With the bud will be Countess Alice Szechenyi, Miss Cynthia Davis and Miss Nancy Newbold. The debutarite will wear a beige net frock and carry yellow roses and Mrs. Aldrich will be in a black velvet gown. Representative and Mrs. John W. Summers will entertain in the Con- gressional Club this evening at 8:30 o'clock for their sons and daughters. ‘There will be a reading followed by dancing. Representative and Mrs. S. Wallace Dempsey of New York issued invita- tions to the tea this afternoon in the Mayflower which they will give in compliment to the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone and Mrs. Harry Burgess. The chief of staff and Mrs. Charles P. Summerall will be the guests of honcr at dinner this evening of Maj. and Mrs. Harry L. Gilchrist, who will entertain at the Army and Navy Club. The special assistant to the Attorney General and Mrs. Guy H. Martin have recently moved from the Valley Vista Apartments to the house at 7006 Fair- fax road, in Edgemoor. Assistant, Attorney General and Mrs. John E. Hoover will have as their guest in their home, at 2017 Kalorama road northwest, for the holidays this year, Cadet Warren Harlan Hoover, who is a second class man at the United States Military Academy at West Point. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aviation and Mrs. David S. Ingalls with their three children, Edith, Jane and -Louise, left last evening for their home, Stonybrook Farm, at Chagrin Falls, near Cleve- land, to spend the holidays. Mile. Adele Varela, daughter of the Minister of Uruguay and Mme. Varela, will entertain informally at tea this afternoon from 5 to 7 o'clock, for which she has cards out. Mr. Claudius H. Huston, chairman of the Republican national committee, gave & brilliant ball last evening in the May- of flower for his debutante daughter, Miss Mildred Huston. The guests numbered nearly 1,000 and included prominent members of the younger circles of Wash- ington socicty and many from out of town. The debutante had a quaint gown of pink tulle, made with a ruffied skirt. The ball room had an effective arrangement of Christmas greens and gay poinsettias, a multi-color spotlight revolving over the danceérs adding to the gayety of the scene. During the evening several features from a well known mu- sical production were given. Col. and Mrs. Wallace Macdonald Craigie will spend_the Christmas holi- days with Mrs. Craigle's cousin, Mrs. Hopkins Heft, at Ridge Acres, Ardsley Park, Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y. On their return to Washington Col. and Mrs. Craigie will occupy their home in Edgemoor, which, during their several months’ stay in Europe, they leased to Mr. and Mrs. Donald McKnew. Col. P. W. Chamberlin entertained a party of 10 at dinner last evening at the Carlton. Midshipman = Walter Asmuth will spend his Christmas leave with his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Asmuth, in their home, at 3301 Warder street northwest. Comdr. and Mrs. John W. Morse will give a ball this evening in the May- flower for their debutante daughter, Miss Frances Morse, who has returned from Vassar for the holidays, in honor of Miss Virginia Cheatham, debutante daughter of Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Ben- jamin F. Cheatham. Preceding the ball Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Cheatham will be hosts at a din- ner dance in compliment to Miss Morse and Miss Cheatham in the gardem of the Mayflower. Mrs. Van Buren, wife of Comdr. W. B. Van Buren, will be hostess at a large dance at the Willard this afternoon for her daughter, Nancy Van Buren, who is home from Mount Holyoke for the Christmas holidays, and her niece, V 'THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, ATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, Allen, Senator and Mrs. ator Lawrence C. Phipps, the Co sioner of the District of Columbia and Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro, Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Drury, Mr. and Mrs. Prederic Willlam Wile, Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Ter- rill, Maj. Raymond E. McQuillam, aide to President Hoover; Miss Henrietta Allen, Miss Fleming and Mr. Roy von Lewinski. Miss Katherine Wilkins will enter- tain at dinner this evening in homor of Miss Cynthia Davis and Miss Dora Innis White, debutantes of the season. Mrs. F. Bagley Wallace of Detroit will present her daughter, Miss Esther Bag- ley Wailace, this afternoon, in the Washington Club. Receiving_with Mrs. Wallace will be Mrs. Gari Melchers of Fredericksburg, Va.; Mrs. Julien Story of Philadelphia, Mrs. Henry Campbell, jr. of Detroit, Mrs. Charles Acker, Mrs. Wallace Rad- cliffe, Mrs. Eric Swenson, Mrs. Mason Patrick, Mrs. Harry S. New, Mrs. Howe Totten. Receiving with Miss Wallace will be her sister, Miss Susanne Wallace; Miss Emma Story of Philadelphia, Miss Doro- thy Chadwick of New York, Miss Bar- bara Stahl of Allentown, Pa.; Miss El- vira Johnson, Miss Priscilla Totten, Miss Caroline Howbert, Miss Margreia Swen- son, Miss Virginia Cheatham, Miss Ja- net Ball, Miss Frances Morse, Miss Mary E. Acker and Miss Emma Du- Lanzy Hunter. Mrs. Frances Clapp Hall of Pittburgh has opened her new home at 4120 Forty- second street for the Winter. She is entertaining as guests for the holidays Mr. and Mrs. John M. Sheedy of Rosa- lie Hall, Scarsdale, N. Y., and Miss Grace E. McKinstry, well known artist of Minnesota and California. Mrs. Hall is a graduate of Mount Vernon Semi- nary and lived in her girlhood_ with her family on Vermont avenue. She is a life ‘member of the National Archeological Soclety and a charter member of the Mussum Curatro Soclety of America. The immense collections of the Hall Museum of Anthropology are now loaned to the Carnegie Institute. Mrs. Samuel Robb Ireland was hostess at luncheon yesterday at the Willard, entertaining for Mrs. Harry Burgess, wife of the governor of the Canal Zone. Miss Elizabeth Brawner went to New York this morning to attend the peace ball this evening at the Plaza, and will return tomorrow. Monday Miss Brawn- er will go to Baltimore for the dance which Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ellicott Maccuon will give for their debutante daughter, Miss Mary Maccuon. Miss Betty Ela, who is a student at Roanoke, Va. About 50 young people have been invited to the tea dance, which is to be held in the palm room. Cook—Harris Wedding Last Night. Miss Lillie Mae Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Harris, and Mr. Dalton Alexander Cook, son of Mrs. Henry Leary of this city and the late Mr. Cook of Culpeper, Va. were mar- ried last evening in the Ninth Street Christian Church, the Rev. B. H. Mel- ton officiating, at 7 o'clock. ‘The bride was given in marriage by her father and wore a gown of white satin made very short in front and very long in the back and without sleeves. Her tulle veil was held with clusters of orange blossoms, and she carried bride roses with a shower of lilies of the valley. Mrs. Phillips F. Dulaney was ma- tron of honor for her sister and wore yellow satin fashioned like the gown of the bride, a close-fitting gold metal cloth turban and carried yellow roses. ‘The bride’s other attendants were her cousin, Mrs. Willlam Burrus, and Miss Edna Leary, cousin of the bridegroom. They were dressed in pink satin, their gowns made like Mrs, Dulaney’s, and they had close-fitt! turbans of silver metal cloth and carried pink roses. Mr. Wales H. Jack was best man, and the ushers were Mr. Willlam Burrus and Mr. Jeffrey A. Abel. Mr. and Mrs. Cook left immediately after the ceremony for a wedding trip, the bride having a traveling costume of brown satin, with which she wore a small brown hat and a coat of brown ponyskin. They will be at home after January 1 at 910 F street northeast. Mrs. Robert Lansing was joined at 1328 Sixteenth street today by her sis- ters-in-law, the Misses Lansing, and Monday Mrs. Lansing and her guests will leave for Hot Springs, Va., to re- main at the Homestead over New Year day. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Campbell Wren will entertain at a tea this afternoon from 4:30 to 7 o'clock in the Mayflower Hotel, when they will present their daughter, Miss Mary Martha Wrenn. ‘Mme. von Lewinski was hostess at dinner last evening in honor of Mr. Ed- | ward Delahay Orborne. The company included Senator and Mrs. Henry J. The Velvet Kind ICE CREAM ALEFNDAR (<] PECIALS < Dealers. With the flavo Heaping Happiness High on Every Hospitable Table De Luxe Pint Packages of FROZEN EGCE NOCGGCE The dessert of all desserts when good will is unbounded. In the stores of those best of caterers—The Velvet Kind r and zest of this old time delicacy increased by the pure, Mrs. Georgia Knox Berry enter- tained a company of eight at dinner in the Carlton last evening, her guests being the Persian Minister, Mirza Davoud Khan Meftah; Senator Ken- neth McKellar, Representative Edward E. Denison, Gen. and Mrs, Charles H. Bridges, Mrs, Ollie James and Mrs, Gilbank Twigg. Miss Catharine Berry, daughter of Mrs. Berry, was hostess at dinner at the same time, her guests including Senorita Lucie Tessada Guzman, Miss Virginia Cheatham, Miss Mary Henry, Miss Virginia Ashburn, Miss Mar- gretta Swenson, Miss Clara Bolling, Miss Jean Hay, Miss Engracia Freyer, Miss Anna Parkhurst, Miss Barber Nell Thomas, Miss Mary Ruden, Miss Jane Hanna, Miss Carolyn Davis, Pri Ferony, Lieut. Winston Folk, U. Lieut. Charles Salzman, U. S. A, 5&;125 w(l:l;:e' U. 8. A; Mr. efries ewning, jr.; M Hax Fowler, Mr. Charles Delmar, Mr. Kerr?: neth Watson, Mr. William Stanley, Mr. Walter Watson, Mr. Jack Hayes, Mr. John Brosnan, Mr. James Dougal and Mr. Stephen Ramsburg, Floor Committee Named For Sub-Debutante Dance. ‘The men's floor committee for the sub-debutante dance to be held Tues- day evening, January 2, 0 o'clock to 1 o'clock, includes Mr. Ra; mond Carter, Mr. John Hamilton, i Mr. v‘;shur Moorehead, Mr. Richard W. Bolling, jr.; Mr. Frederick Drum Hunt, Mr. Alfred Thom, Mr. Rudolph WATER COLORS CORCORAN GALLERY Sun., Dec. 8th—Sun., Dec. 29th Paintings-Etchings—Drawings May Be Purchased Washington Water Color Club __ New Remington Portable Typevwriter, $60 Standard Keyboard Wm. Ballantyne & SDII! 1421 F St. ( QO ¢ DECEMBER 20 TO JANUARY 9 é Qo SEASON OF HOLIDAY CHEER W U\ N richsmooth- ness of the finest ice cream the South ever produced. SouthernDairies Burton_K.| Wheeler, Senator Arthur Capper, Sen-iMr. Edgar Orme, Mr. js-muel Biddle and , 3T, Mr. and Mrs. David Hunt Blair will leave tomorrow morning for Winston- Salem, N. C., to pass Christmas with the latter's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Blair will return to their apart- ment in the Wardman Park Hotel Sat- urday, December 28. Mrs. McCook Knox entertained a party of 49 at dinner last evening at the Carlton for her daughter, Miss Kathleen McCook Knox. Mrs. Jessie H. Ridenour and her daughter, Mrs. Bertha R. Delaney of the La Salle, will leave Washington tomorrow to spend the Christmas holi- days in Maine. They will not return until January 7, when they will re- sume their Sundays at home. Kauffmann, Mr. Willlam Lee Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Parker, returned last night from Princeton to spend the Christmas holidays with his parents in Chevy Chase. Miss Alice Parker is home from New York, where she has been visiting. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P. Parker of New York Oity are passing some time at the Carlton. Miss Lloyd Washington has arrived in Washington, coming from her home at King George, Va., and it at the Carlton for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Turner Newcomb have with them in their apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel their gh: ter, Mrs. Alexander Higginson. Mrs. n will remain only a few aays longer with her parents and before go- ing to Boston to pass Christmas. Mrs. Rinehart to be Honor Guest At Pen League Breakfast. Mary Roberts Rinehart will be a guest of honor at the third celebrity breakfast of the National League of American Pen Women December 28 | at the Willard Hotel. This will be one of the tmportant events of the holiday season in Washington and it is expected that many out-of-town visitors to the city will be present. Dr. Don Hernan Velarde, Ambassador of Peru; Dr. Enrique Olaya, Minister of Colombia, and Dr. Henry Suzzallo of the Carnegie Foundation and director of the survey of education undertaken by the President's conference on educa- tion, will be the guests of honor and speakers at the dinner which will be given next week during the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish. The dimner will be held Friday evening, December 27, in the Willard. Dean Henry Grattan Doyle of George Washington University is chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements for the meeting. The International Soiree to be given in the patio of the Carlton Hotel Wed- nesday, January 15, under the auspices of the Colonial Dames of America, Chapter 3, will include many beautiful tableaux vivants, with, in many cases, national dances and songs. Most of the embassies and legations are assisting with the tableaux repre- senting their countries and lending ! national costumes which are never seen on any other occasion in Washington. Mrs. John Rutherford is president of Chapter 3, and Mrs. Walter R. Tucker- man, who is arranging the entertain- ment, is first vice president. Mr. Howard Gillman of the fleld force of the Interior Department is in Wash- ington for the holidays, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Arrowsmith, jr., have motored to Washington from their home in Hillsboro, N. C.,, and are stopping at the Carlton. Mr. and Mrs. Levis C. Hamilton have had with them in their apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel their daugh- ter, Mrs. Hugh Caperfon, who has re- turned to her home in Kentucky. Mr. J. T. Moriarty is in Washington for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. A. Z. Gardiner of New York City are spending several days at the Carlton. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Smith will go to- day to New York to pass the holidays, returning later to their apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel. Largest Dry Dock Completed. KURE, Japan, December 21 (#).— What is regarded as the largest dry dock in the world has been completed at the naval base here. It can accom- modate four 10,000-ton cruisers at once. PLANNING GROUP ACTS ON GRADING PROJECT Board Decides on Work in Front of Department of Agriculture Building. Grading in front of the Department- of Agriculture Bullding, in connection with the proposed four roadways down the Mall was decided upon late yester- day by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. ~Approval was given to the program providing for through traffic north and south on Fourteenth and Twelfth streets, to be constructed under the Mall highways as_underpasses. This program contemplates the elim- ination of grade crossings, Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., tit commission’s engineer, said today. The four highways on the Mall will be of one level, under the present plans, and will be paved. Further studies will have to be made in conjunction with the Washington Monument development plan, by the commission’s staff, Capt. Chisolm ex- lained. The proposed George Wash- gton Memorial, which is to be placed in the Mall, will receive further at- tention at the January meeting of the commission, as additional study is con- sidered necessary. The proposed na- tional Negro memorial will likewise be considered further next month, By having a quick lunch in the com- g‘itflon;t! meeting roon; nndk?y exp:; ing program and working unti dark, the commission rk, obviated the necessity of meeting originall today also, as ly contemplated. Rides Plane’s Tail, Survives. CAMDEN, N. J,, December 21 (#).— Having been given an involuntary ride of 10 miles hanging to the tail of an airplane, William Coumbe, 17-year-old farm hand, is in good condition to tell of his thrills. He was helping to ho! down the tail when the engine was being warmed up, and he didn't let go when the plane soared. In fact, he held on till the plane got to within 5 feet of the ground again. Then he rolled over and over so much he was sent to a hospital for a few bruises. : Plum Pudding ST. IVEL OLDE ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING s All Over the World Packed in Decorated sl .25 China Bowls. W. L. HOWLETT Delivered 228 Mills Blds. Phone Cleve. 530 { On the tables . of those who know” OUR FAMOUS GREEN BA OFFEE A Mild, Sweet Drink—The FaVQrite of Washington for Twenty Years On Sale Only at All “Sanitary” & Piggly Wiggly Stores