Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1929, Page 41

Features for Women SOCIETY SECTION he Sunduy Stae. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1929, Tales of Well Known Folk MRS. EDGAR R. KIESS, Whose husband is Representative from Pennsylvania. Bachrach photo. White House Official Events Opened by New Year Day Reception Due Wednesday FUH program {01’ Presic‘ent anrl MX‘S. HOOVCX’ Beyond Ash Wednesday—Homelike Air at Executive Mansion Pleases. O Nation’s host and hostess, but by the time Christmas bells rang last week the Colonial mansion looked like its occu- pants might have lived there forever. There was scarcely ever such a thoroughly homelike air in the mansion, Christmas trees stand- ing outside the main entrance, a Christmas tree that almost reached the ceiling in the great marble entrance hall and another in the state dining room which sparkled like a pyramid of frost and dia- monds in its glow of electric lights and new-fashioned electric conceits. TH!RE were red flowers and red candles in the stiff and stately drawing rooms and even the corridor of the east terrace gleamed with Christmas lights and cheer. However, the old-fashioned tree in the front hall was the most interesting of all, its outreaching branches being hung with such homely decoration as graced Christ- mas trees a hundred years ago. These decorations were the con- ception of Mrs. Hoover, and there were strands of white popcorn, gingerbread men and horses, homemade stars, cornucopias and | horns; paper dolls and homemade toys, while mounted on an old- time rocking horse was a rag doll which has greatly amused the | older guests and will prove a mirth-provoking feature of Mr. Allan Hoover's dance party tomorrow night. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. RDINARILY the first season of an administration is one of ad- justment to the new phase of life in the White House for the ITH the New Year day reception opening the official program for 1930, events of great social import will follow rapidly up to Ash Wednesday, March 5, with the Army and Navy reception on the following night, a reception to the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture on March 13, one to the Departments of Commerce and Labor, March 20, and then a period of rest from routine official affairs for the Chief Executive and the First Lady of the Land. INVITATIONS for the reception to the judiciary went out from the White House last week, and on the night of January 9 the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Mrs. Taft will head the dignified line of justices, judges and others famous at the bar. The following week, Thursday, January 16, the Vice President will be honor guest at the State dinner and a week later the dinner in honor of the Chief Justice will be given. ANY social innovations were tried out in 1929, some of them so wisely chosen that they have come to stay and others were mere soclal misfits, un-American and even in bad taste. Large enter- tainments, those with a thousand guests, must necessarily be given in public ball rooms, but there will be decidedly a return to the home for smaller and more exclusive hospitality. The admission card will accompany all invitations and are not to be passed on by those invited but who cannot attend. hostess who invites her entire dinner party to attend the dance of another hostess will be out of favor after this season, and even asking hosts for extra invitations except where great intimacy obtains will not be quite the thing. In other words, hosts and hostesses will be permitted to choose their own guests. 'I'H‘!: Navy Relief benefit ball has for years taken place at the‘ Willard and both ball rooms are engaged for Thursday night when the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Adams will attend, all of the higher officials of the Government, the Navy and the mem- bers of unofficial ranks will tread a measure for the benefit of the helpless families of sailors. This ball has sometimes claimed the resence of Presidents and First Ladies in the past. The night | ollowing, the Army dance at the Willard will claim the attendance | of the Secretary of War and Mrs. Hurley. burg., Fla., early this week, where Mr. Coolidge will attend the directors’ meet- ing of the New York Life Insurance Co. | Representative C. E. Kiefner. who is | passing a short time at his home in| Perryville, Mo., will join Mrs, Kiefner, in their apartment in the Hotel Roose- . velt next Sunday. ShcaliNotes Rialating TO Ni!ion.! Ofi;:ialfli The Secretary of the Navy, Mr.| Charles Francis Adams, will go to Bos- ton New Year evening to spend a short | time. The Postmaster General and Mrs Brown, who went to their home in To- | ledo for Christmas, are expected back | the first of the week. ‘The Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Rob- ert Patterson Lamont, was joined yes- terday afternoon by Mrs. Lamont, who spent a few days with her son-in-law | and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Belknap, and their infant son, born December 23. Miss Gertrude Lamont | is in Chicago and will join her parents here early in the new year. The Secretary of Labor, Mr. James J. Davis, is spending the week end with | at| his father, Mr. David J. Davis, Sharon, Pa. He will return to Wash- | from their home in Pennsylvania, where Representative and Mrs. William E.| Hull have with them in their apartment at the Wargman Park Hotel the latter’s | sister-in-law, Mrs. Prank Harris of Peoria, Il Mrs. Harris' daughter, Miss Virginia Harris, is passing the Winter with her um}le and aunt, Representative and Mrs. Hull. Former Representative and Mrs. Thomas W. Phillips will return to Washington the latter part of the week they went to spend the holidays. The Second Assistant Postmaster | General and Mrs. W. Irving Glover have been joined in their apartment ington tomorrow. Pormer President and Mrs. Coolidge are leaving Northampton for St. Peters- | at the Wardman Park Hotel by their son, Mr. Warren Glover, who has come {rom Tome School for tip holidays. MRS. ODDIE, Wife of Senator Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada, important factor MRS. JULIUS KLEIN. Mr. Klein being a brilliant nember of the President’s little Cabinet. Bachrach photo. Secretary of State 1—Other Notable Func- tions in Commenoration of the Day. \ | | | ‘The Secretary of State and Mrs. Stim- son have cards out for the annual New Year day breakfast at the Pan-Ameri- | Ding in her home for her debutante can Union, at 12:30 o'clock. With the exception of the Secretary | timson and the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Andrew Mellon, who 1s on a cruise with his family, the cabinet members and their wives will receive New Year day after 4 o'clock. Mrs. Gann, sister of the Vice Presi- dent and his official hostess, will not in official life. ‘Underwood ‘photo. Special Honors Bestowed New Year Breakfast Upon Capital’s Society Buds Guests Invited for January Dinners and Dancing Mark Ceremonies of Pres- entation to Society—Elaborate Programs Observed—Holiday Spirit Prevails. Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis enter- of New York and Paris, sister of Mme tained at a er and dance last eve- Ekengren. din Invitations have been issued for a dance at the Willard following the din- ner, the company ‘being limited to the guests at dinner and others, Mr. and Mrs. O. Raymond Evans were hosts at a large ball last cvening in the Chinese room and the grand daughter, Miss Edith Eustis. Among the guests were the Ambassador of Great Britain and Lady Isabella How- ard, and other diplomats and the Grand Duchess Kira, A number of small dinner parties| were given before the dance. Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman receive New Year day, her next day| entertained at dinner last evening for at home being Wednesday, The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Mrs. Willlam Howard Taft will observe their at home New Year dlY between the hours of 4 and 6:30 o'clock at their residence, 2215 Wyom- ing avenue. They will be assisted by | January 8. | the Grand Duchess Kira. The company of 24, most of them from the younger set, accompanying them to the dance Wwhich Mrs. Eustis gave for her daugh- ter, Miss Eustis. Mrs. Rushmore Patterson and her son, Mr. Rushmore Patterson, who is the wives of the Associate Justices of | spending his Christmas vacation from the Supreme Court. Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft have with them for the holidays their daughter, Mrs. Frederick G. Manning, president her two daughters, Helen and Carolyn. Senator and Mrs. John B. Kendrick, (Continued on Second Page.) | | Princeton with her, will entertain at dinner tomorrow night in their home at 2501 Massachusetts avenue for Miss ek acting | Elsie Ekengren, Miss Loranda Prochnik, of Byn Mawr College ana| Miss La ura Tuckerman and Miss Mar- Wright. Among_the dinner guests will be the Grand Duchess Kirs, Who is the guest in Washington of Miss Ekengren’s aunt, . Deming Jarves garetta ball room of the Mayflower when _their (Continued on Second Page.) . SubDebutants Dance Interests Young Set Another sub-debutante dance similar to the one given December 23 at the Mayflower has been arranged at the ho- tel for Thursday evening. These two events were arranged by the mothers of the young soctety up at home from college for the holidays, among them being Mrs. Beale Bloomer, Mrs. William D. Chandler, jr.; . Levi Cooke, Mrs. John J. Hamilton, Mrs. R. M. Kauff mann, Mrs. Richard G. Park, Mrs. Wil- liam H. Holloway, Mrs. R. W. Bolling, Mrs. Arthur MacArthur, Mrs. Upshur Moorhead and Mrs. Adam M. Wyant, MRS. BLOOM, Whose husband, Representative Sol Bloom, is a mem- ber of the foreign affairs committee of the House. Harris & Ewing photo. Ambassador Howard In Final Role as Dean Distinguished Briton's Serv- ice at New Year Ceremo- nies Among His Last Off- cial Duties Before Retire- ment, Sir Esme Howard, retiring Ambas- sador from the Court of St. James, in | leading his colleague to greet the Presi- dent and Mrs. Hoover and the official | world on New Year morning, will per- | form that agreeable function for the third and last time. He assumed the | office of dean in_October, 1927, when | the incumbent, Baron de Cartier of Belgium, had been transferred to Lon- don. King Albert's representative per- formed that function but once, in Jan- | uary 1, 1927, when Senor Riano had retired ‘from the corps. That deans of the diplomatic corps in Washington | have brief tenures of office is apparent | from the fact that M. Jusserand, 22 years Ambassador from the French Re- public and dean of the corps for 12 of these, left Washington in March, 1922. When this month of 1930 arrives he will | have had four successors in the honor- | ary office. The diplomatic contingent on New Year morning will have the piquant interest of no one knowin; Actly ed the cultured and (Cotitinued @@ Second Page.) ‘ Of Diplomatic Corps' MRS. REED, Wife of Mr. Stanley Reed, general counsel for the Federal Farm Board. photo. Ambassador and Nobil ‘The 1ltalian Ambassador and Nobil de Martino will entertain at luncheon today in honor of the Eecr:ur;_ of State and Mrs. Henry L. Stimson. The com- pany will include Representative and Mrs. Richard S. Aldrich, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Blair of New York, the air at- tache of the British embassy, Wing Comdr. and Mrs. T. G. Hetherington; Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, Mr. Albert Red- path, Mr. William Phelps Eno, Senorita Rosy Padilla, Miss Josephine Patten and members of the embassy staff, including Count _Marchetti, counselor; Capt. Nobile Notarbartolo di Villarosa, naval attache, and Signor Leonardo Vitteti, first secretary. ‘The Ambassador of Cuba and Senora de Ferrara, who are spending some time in their native country, will return to ‘Washington the middle of next month. ‘The Ambassador of France and Mme. Claudel will entertain at dinner New Ye:,r eve the members of the embassy staff. The Ambassador and Mme. Claudel will give a reception at the French em- bassy Monday, January 6, for the mem- bers of the Alliance Francaise, to cele- brate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Alliance Francaise in Washington. Peter will entertain at dinner January 16, at the legation, in honor of the Italian Ambassador and Nobil de Mar- tino and the Ambascador of France and Mme. Claudel. They will be hosts at dinner January 6. ‘The Minister of Hungary and Coun- tess Szechenyi will entertain at a dance ‘Tuesday evening at the legation, Envoy and Senora De Alfaro Entertain at Dinner. ‘The Minister of Panama and Senora de Alfaro entertained at dinner last evening at the legation in honor of ?e Governor of the Panama Canal one and Mrs. Harry Burgess. The guests included Representative | Mrs. Maurice Thatcher, general L. and the director of Pan-American Union, Dr. . 8. Rowe; Brig. Gen. and. Mrs. | Charles W. Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. | Charles Kerr, Mr. Robert Hinckley, Mr, and Mrs. Paul Evarts Johnson, Mr. and i Latour, Maj. and Mrs. Edward H. Con | ger, Senora J. A. Aria: | tary of the legation Chevalier. The Minister and Senora de Alfaro will entertain at dinner January 8 in honor of the United States Ambassador 1 to Chile and Mrs. Willam 8. Culbertson. | _The Minister of Greece and Mme. | Simopoulps will_sail for this country | Friday on the Olympic after spending | several months abroad. | _The Minister of Sweden and Mme. | Bostrom will entertain at luncheon Tuesdaay in honor of the Ambassador of Great Britain and Lady Isabella | Howard. ‘The Minister of Venezuela and Senora de Grisanti entertained at luncheon nd Senora de gation staff and a few other Venezue- lans in the Capital. | The Minister of the Netherlands md: Mme. Van Royen will entertain at din- | ner_January 16. i ‘They were hosts at a small dinner party last evening for their son, Mr. | | Robert Van Royen, who is with them |for the holidays. The guests were young friends of their son. Mr. Din- ninger of New York, well known mind reader, gave a performance during the evening. Minister and Mme. Bachke Give Dinner for Young Folk. The Minister of Norway and Mme.! Bachke were hosts & company of 20 young persons at diffier last evening The Minister of Switzerland and Mme, | Mrs. Thomas Sim Lee, Mme. Sanchez- | and the secre- | Italian Embassy Honors Secretary and Mrs. Stimson de Martino to Entertain Them at Dinner—Other Notable Functions in Diplomatic Circle. | in the Pan-, | flower. The charge d'affaires of Egypt, Mr. Ahmed Mamdouh Moursi, will entere tain at a reception on the evening of a;nulry 10, at 10 o'clock, at the lega= n. American room of the May- The military attache of the Cuban embassy and Senora de Prieto will have guests with them at the supper dance (Continued on Second Page.) i St Mexico's President-Elect Honor Guest at Embassy The Ambassador of Mexico, Senor | Don Manuel C. Tellez, gave a brilliant | reception last evening at the embassy | on Sixteenth street in honor of the President-elect of Mexico and Senora de Ortiz Rubio. The embassy was gay with Christmas greens and red flowers and berries in keeping with the holiday season, and two orchestras played throughout the evening. Due to the illness of Senora de Tellez, Senora de Campos Ortiz, wife of .the first secretary of the embassy, acted as hostess for the Ambassador. The guests numbered several thou- | sands and in_the distinguished com- pany were the Vice President, Mr. | Charles Curtis, and his brother-in-law and sister, Mr, and Mrs. Edward Everett, Gann: members of the cabinet and their wives, practically the entire diplo- matic corps and a large contingent from the congressional set, as well as smart residential society. HursofMuttaiateial4 For Friday Next at 4 P.M. An interesting event on the social and music calendars for the week is the hour of music to be given by Dona Ortensia (Countess Mignano-Piercy) Friday a’ternoon at 4 o'clock at g Carlton Hotel. The patrons for event are Mme. Claudel, wife of the Ambassador of Prance; Nobil de Mar- tino, wife of the Italian Ambassador; the Minister of Rumania, Mr. Charles A. Davila, Mrs. Truxton Beale, Mrs, Perry Belmont, Mrs. Tracy Dows, Mre. Henry F. Dimock, Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend. Second Ar;yrbnnce Listed for Friday Night ‘The second Army dance will be held at the Willard Friday night and many dinner parties will be given at the hotel preceding the:dance, among them that by Col. and Mrs. John B. Shuman in honor of the Chief of Staff and Mrs. Charles P. Summerall. Others enter- taining are: Gen. d Mrs. Herbert B, Crosby, Col. and s. A. W. Browr, Maj. L. E. Atkins and Capt. and Mre. S. R. Stribling. Ccngre;sicmnl Clul'; Tea To Honor Mrs. Andrews ‘The Congressional Club will have as its guest of honor at its tea Friday afternoon Mrs. Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, author and artist. Mrs, An- drews, who is one of the cleverest women in Washington, will take as her subject “Through Ten Administrations.” A reception and tea will follow the program. Mrs. Washington H;teu To Lee Memorial Group Mrs. Joseph E. Washington is enter- taining at tea Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at her apartment, at 1302 Eighteenth street, members of the executive committee of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, of which she is director for the District of Columbia.