Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1930, Page 45

Tk UNDAY TAR., WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 5, Tales vi ‘Vell In Social and Official Life President Hoover Heralded the New Year Wed- nesday in Unison With Heads Nations in Christendom. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. When President Hoover led the offi- | cial world last Wednesday in hailing the year 1930 he followed the example | of heads of nations in all of | Christendom. In the more picturesque | years of the past, some. dozen or more New Year celebrations occurred in the Capital, those at the Russian embassy in the days of the Czars being espe- cially brilliant and unique. But in 1918, after the reigning Czar and his family had been assassinated and all his kindred exiled, the ruling powers swept away the old tradition of the Julian calendar and substituted the Gregorian. Since that date other nations following the Greek Orthodox faith have fallen into line, Serbia 2-¢ Rumania in 1919, and Greece in 1923. Bulgaria had taken over the more modern way of reckoning time years before the World War, and the Ottoman empire changed its calendar in 1917. Other non-Christian nations have, however, clung to their more ancient ways. One of the gayest welcomes to the New Year is held in November at the Persian legation, where the Iranian calendar followed is cycles older than the Julian and thus antedates the Christian era by centuries. The Far Fast officially recognizes the advent of the New Year by the reckoning of Pope | Gregory and celebrates it with marked respect, But Japan, China, Siam and other old countries of Asia keep their own feast with traditional pomp and | solemn religious servi-es. Great Britain and her colonies ‘epted the Gregorian calendar in 1752 and, eliminating 12 extra days. displaced the birthday of many of the founders of this nation, including that of the august Washing- ton, whose natal day is recorded by all cxact historians as February 22, new style—10th, old way—of counting them. > Mrs. Hoover doubtless will, if leisure permits, persuade the President to take & leisurely motor trip into Virginia and along those highvays where there have | recently been placed so many informa- | tive inscriptions to guids the seeker for historical sites. The Old Dominion has | gone through a regular orgy of marking ¥ during the past year, and now not only | are the sites properly inscribed. but out- | of-the-way places are pointed out, as, for instance, on the Richmond Highway may be encountered a prominent sign, “Four miles east on this road may be found the birthplace of Henry Clay. Eight miles east is Hanover Court, ‘where Plkick‘ Heng mn‘d‘e mi!'l first great speech in 1763.” Mrs. Hoover, like her predecessor, Mrs. Coolidge, takes | keen delight in visiting such places. | ‘These new markers mount into several hundreds and include famous colonial, revolutionary and Civil War battle grounds, as well as recalling the con- structive work done by pioneers in the centuries which came after Jamestown. The last mentioned place, Jamestown, and Williamsburg are perhaps the rich- est spots in the republic so far as com- | memorative inscriptions go. * x x % Mr. Prederic Mosely Sackett, Senator fr Kentueky, who will succeed Dr. Jadob Gould Schurman as Ambassador to “Berlin, is a transplanted Yankee, having gone from Providence, R. I, to | of her sex find a’ livelihood. Known Folk of All be himself examined by others on the board and his findings questioned, and even dissatisfied applicants may take a fling at his conclusions and ask for | chapter and verse. Many eminnt ex- aminers have emerged from the ordeal | with diminished reputations. But not | s0 M. Claudel, who began at the very foot of the ladder as vice consul and worked his way upward by his compre- hensive knowledge of the requirements for diplomatic success. | > 5 x s ‘The Ambassador to London and Mrs. Jharles Gates Dawes accepted the hos- pitality of the American Society of that city at a reception and banquet on Thanksgiving day, but they enter- MOTHER tained a numerous company in the embassy in Princes’ Gate Christmas | afternoon and then entertained the | embassy staff and a few additional guests at dinner. The American So- | ciety of London, which is the nucleus | about which many subsidiary gather- | ings revolve, always makes a grand | occasion of Thanksgiving dinner. Soup was made of a monstrous turtle caught | off Long Island, the turkeys came from various States, principally New Eng- land, and pies were made of pumpkin which had been grown from North Carolina seed in Normandy. The Am- bassador and Mrs. Dawes, however, did not send home for anything necessary for their Christmas feast except the fine hams for which their city is famous. Their turkeys were of that white breed so plentiful in Norfolk, the flesh of which is uncommonly tender and of delicate flavor and which always forms the chief meat dish at London ban- | quets. These white turkeys from Noi folk figure constantly on the menus in the royal palaces, Sandringham and Buckingham. Gen. Dawes, unlike his predecessors, is not enthusiastically partial to oysters, either the home prod- uct or those obtainable in the Channel or North Sea. But mince meat and pumpkin came from Evanston and from | the same dealer who has served the several Dawes families resident there | for a quarter of a century. * xox % Miss Peyton Hawes, daughter of Sen- ator and Mrs. Harry Bartow Hawes of St. Louis, is another recruit in the busi- ness world who was lured from the social realm. Miss Hawes during the past month entered one of the large mercantile establishments of her home city and, taking a humble post, in- tends to work her way upward to a complete understanding of this depart- ment store, industry, in which so many This is not her first serious venture, however, for during several Summers she served as executive officer for various Summer camps for girls and at odd times has proved an excellent campaign speaker. Miss Eppes Hawes, her younger sister, is more inclined to the usual pleasures of well placed maidens who have a generous income. She has been mak- ing a trip around the world and after several months of strenuous travel she recently joined he rents in their home on Massachusetts avenue near Twenty-sixth street. Hawes counted many interesting year: in Washington before the former came first to the House then to the Senate. In fact, Mrs. Hawes, the daughter of a 87 1930—PART THREE. #4ND DAUGHTER Mrs. Helen Lake Le Gendre and Jeanne Collette Le Gendre, daughter and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Lake, —Harris-Ewing Photo. States about, five years ago to revive in- terest in the historic pageant, which has been a ritual to the people of Oberammergau since 1634, will act as prologue reader at the next rendition. He was the Christus in 1900, in 1910 and again in 1922, but 1930 finds him too aged and feeble for the exacting | part. Although almost six months in- | tervene between the present and_the | first_performance of the Passion Play, |all the best rooms in hotels and the best scats in the amphitheater already have been sold. Some 25,000 visitors to | | Bavaria during the last’ Summer took | lin the village on the Ammer and en. | Baged places for the play. The second important part, that of the mother of | Christ, is still unfilled. The handsome | and capable Hansi Preisinger. daughter of the village postmaster, was selected, but she revealed that she was engaged to be married and that ended her am- bitions in that role. She was chosen instead to play Mary Magdalene. * kK X Mrs. E. H. Harriman is the sole rep- resentative of her sex in the diminish- ing group of the first generation box owners when in 1883 the Metropolitan | Opera Hol threw open its doors after a bitter warfare with the advocates of the Academy of Music, at Fourteenth and Irving place. Mrs. Harriman con- fesres she was almost persuaded that the new temple of music was hope- lessly uptown and would only prove a | costly experiment. Mr. Georg: F. Baker, Mr. Otto H. Kahn and Mr. R. Fulton Cutting remain of this this third on the maternal. He is a grea grandson of William H. Vanderbil, and | the grandson of William C. Whitney. Family traditions strongly are in- trenched by Vincent Astor, who clings tenaciously to the box in which his fa- mous grandmother held court. * ok ok K The Earl of Ypres, who succeeded to the title and honors of the late British Firld Marshal French, had long before the terrible holocaust of 1914-18 chosen the peaceful pursuit of art, and he has chieved distinction in water colors ‘With the countess the earl has just come to New York. and they intend to hold exhibitions there and in other centers of a series of sketches, includirg gardens, exquisite bits of scenery on fields drenched jn blood during the fatal years when the Earl of Ypres wi stubbornly holding back the invaders, and flooding their pathway from the dykes. Some of these paintings were painted in the wake of returning pros- perity in Belgium, others in France and | Italy. The Earl made his studies in the usual way when his father was a gallant officer who had seen service everywhere the army was needed— Africa, North and South, and in Indin The countess, although artistically i clined, is not a professional, but she be- longs to the guild of artisis and so is deeply interested in the colonies estab- lished in New York City, in_Chicago and in the Southwest. Santa Fe is now the seat of a flourishing school of art, and many of the famows members of | Woman's Country Club Reception Set for Jan. 16 tional Woman's Country Club will com- | pose the receiving line at the recep- tion on January 16, which will mark the formal opening of their quaint club house on Bradley Hills boulevard. The board has been augmented since it was organized, and now consists of Lady Isabella Howard. wife of the British Ambassador; Mrs. Charles _ Franci: ldams and Mrs. Robert Patterson Lamont, cabinet hostesses: Mrs. Claude A. Swanson and Mrs. William E. Borah wives of Senators, the latter being the chairman of the board: Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick, Mrs. Frank W. Mondell, Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. | Henry F. Dimock, Mrs. E. M. Cum- | mings, Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Mrs. | Henry Price Wright, Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman, Mrs. T. A. Scott Thropp | and Miss Natalle Sumner Lincoln. The advisory council of the board, who are residents of other States, will nearly | all be here for the opening, and wiil | assist in various ways throughout the quaint and cozy rooms of the club house. They are Mrs. William Bayard Cutting of 'New York, Mrs. Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Boston; Mrs, E. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia; Mrs. Harry S. New, Indiana; Mrs. Willis E. Buhl, Detroit, and Miss Martha McClure, Republican national committeewoman | from Iowa. | There is a large non-resident mem- bership, and many of these members are arranging to be in Washington at | the time of the opening and are mak- ing reservations for parties on the opening day and several days after- ward. | The club is arranging & special sup- | per dance for the evening of Janu-| !ary 17. designed especially to enter- tain the large number of young people | {in the club and in the families of | club members, for the members of the | family of a club member are eligible to all the privileges of the club. The kitchen of the newly equipped club house is a real show place, with every- thing electrical which is made for kitch- | en and pantry work in place. A special feature is to be “Southern” cooking, | with chicken, hot breads of all kinds, | particularly waffles; spoon bread &nd | roast "shoat, which will make the veriest epicure enthusiastic. An at- ‘tmcuve livery for club servants has been selected and everything about, this very unsual national and international | woman's club will savor of the well| appointed private home of & econ- noisseur, There are now enrolled near'y 500 members, the greater number of whom are expected at the opening day festiv- ity, with a very limited number of { guests. ry party Attended by Governor The Governor of Maryland, Albert Cabell Ritchie, attended | birthday “party Mr. William F. Gude | gave yesterday at 1 o'clock at his coun- | try estate, the Gude Winterburn Farm, | | Laurel, Md. The other guests were | Senator Millard E. Tydings, the Com- | missioner of the District, Mr. Proctor | L. Dougherty; Col. Bentley of Laurel, Prof. Symons, Coliege Park, Md.. Mr.| Alex Gude, Hyattsville, Md.; Dr. N. B | Steward. Laurel, Md.; Mr.’ Carr. An napolis, Md.: Mr. Samuel Prescott, Mr. Christian Heurich, Rev. Charles War- | ner. Mr. Frederick McKee, Mr. Robert Hicks, Mr. L, P. Steuart, Mr. J. §. J . Gus Forsberg, Mr. Charles Grakelow, Philadelphis, Pa.: Me. Wi liam Radcliffe. Mr. Charles Demonet, Mr. Frank Hight, Mr. A. Jorss, Mr. Howard Norton, Mr. E. W. Davis, Mr. George Whitwell, Mr. E. F. Gude, Mr. | Branson Thomas, Mr. Enos Ray, Prof. | Wood, College Park, Md.; Mr. Adolph | Rockville, Md.; Mr. George | White, Mr. Walter Weaver, Mr. Philip | ‘Anniversa Mr. | SOCIETY. FORMER CAPITAL GIRL ‘The board of governors of the Na- . MISS KATHERINE A. YOUNG, Daughter of Federak Judge and Mrs. George M. Young of 160 Riverside drive, Manhattan, who made her debut at Sherry's, in New York, New Year eve. Young spent her life in Washington, her father having formerly been a sentative in Congress from North Dakota. Miss Repre- —Ira L. Hill Photo. Mrs. Van Keuren Honored On Eve of Trip &broad Mrs, Alexander H. ¥an Keuren, wife of Capt. Van Keuren, who is to leave Washington January 8 with her hus- band for the disarmament conference, will be honored by Mrs. Nina Swalm Reed at a farewell tomorrow at the Wil- lard Hotel. Capt. Van Keuren goes to the conference in the role of a naval adviser. Preceding the luncheon, Mrs. Reed ! will give the last of her first series of “Things Talked About” at 11:30 o'clock | at the Willard, discussing the problems that face the nations of the world in 1930, and giving a bird's-eye view of the subjects that have engaged atten- tion at these talks during the past few month: The second series of talks will open | January 13. Lee-Jackson Honored By Virginia Society | The birthday of Robert E. Lee and | Stonewall Jackson will be very appro- priately celebrated by the Soclety of Virginia, The soclety will glve a Lee-Jackson entertainment and ball Friday evening, January 17, in the grand bail room of the new Willard Hotel. A program will Miss Dial to Entertain At Tea This Afternoon Miss Rebecca Dial, daughter of former Senator and Mrs. Nathaniel B. Dial, will entertain at tea this after- noon, from 4 to 6 o'clock, at her studio apartment in the Portland. Assisting will be Mrs. A. H. Farrara, Mrs. Allen White, Mrs, Frank Lovett, Mrs. Allard H. Gasque, Miss Florence Heddon and Miss Edith Grove. Miss Dial will give a program of songs, with Mrs. Charles Stark accompanying at the piano. O 1143 CONN. AVENUE CLEARANCE OF ALL WINTER HATS in Three Groups ;Community Club Scene Of New Year Supper Dance ‘The Wesley Heights Community Club was the scene of a gay supper dance on New Year eve, when the guests, num- bering more than 100, were received hy Mrs. Carl W. Mitman, Mrs. Charles H. Hilligeist and Mrs. Howard G. Nichols. munity entertained at informal parties preceding the supper among them being Mr. and Mrs, Frederick H. Butcher of Cathedral avenue. Their guests included Mr. and Mrs. Reid S. Baker, Mr. and Mrs, W. C. Hanson, Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Kilbourne, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil J. Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Dowell, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Fitzhugh, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Yate: Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hilligeist, Mr. and Mrs. George S, Carll, jr., and Miss Phyllis Morgart. Enli(n and Mrs. Marks Guest at Card Party Mr. and Mrs. Willlam O. Marks of 5425 Connecticut avenue, entertained Monday at bridge for Mr. Marks’ broth- er and sister-in. . Ensign and Mrs. Arthur Duncan Marks. The guests in- cluded Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Marks, Mr. and Mrs. Duncan D. Ransdell, Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Sillers, Mr. and Mrs, E. R. Marks, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Preeman, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ren- neberger, Mr. and Mrs. Mallett Prevost, Mrs, Lewis Bralove, Mrs. E. Gladmon, Miss Hazel Berry, Miss Helen Sprague, Miss Josephine Miller, Miss Agnes Mor- son, Miss Helen Smith, Mis Dorothy Smith, Mr. Walter C. Marks, Mr. James A. Marks, Mr. R. M. Dulin, Mr. Wil liam Sterling Sincell, Mr. Jack F. Bur- ton and Mr. Ben P. Rial. |Engagement Announced Interesting in Maryland « Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lee Chiswell of Dickerson, Md., announce the en- gagement of their daughter, Elsie Lee, to Mr. Benjamin N. Allnutt of Dawson- ville, Md. lehe wedding will take place in _the Spring. Pasternak Clearance Sales continue Greatly Reduced Prices for a Quick Disposal Dresses $19.50 Originally $55 to 75 '35 $5.00 well known officer, Is a native of her the Eastern colonies have studios there | Herrmann. Mr. Edward Snyder, Mr, | D¢ given from 8:30 to 9:30 o'clock, fol- the capital of the Blue Grass State. group. All have maintained their He' claims Brown University as alma boxes and appear as frequently as and work in the vivid sunshine of the | Cuno Rudolph, Mr. Edward Graham, desert all through dark cloudy months | Nation’s Capital. She was, before her Mr. Joscph Berberich, Mr. John Gheen, e, Miss Eppes Osborne Robin- owed by dancing from 9:30 to 12:30 o'clock. The ball room will be deco- mager and_took his law degress in Ha¥vard. -But he married a belle of | Dixie, Miss Olive Speed, daughter of | Mr, James Breckenridge Speed and a | descendent of eminent Virginians who invaded Kentucky and the “dark and bicody ground” with the cohorts of son, and she spent her early married years in Honolulu when her husband was President Cleveland's representa- tive during the annexation of the Re- public of Hawaii. In later years he served as military attache in Madrid George Rogers Clark. Dr. Schurman has not been in robust health and for | the past two years he and his family | haye led retired lives in a small hotel on:the Potsdammer Platz. But there exift an abundance of clubs and patriotic and benevolent societies made | up of citizens of Uncle Sam's domain Ambassador Sackett will it in the situation with ease, for, besides the social graces, they have an ampie fortune. This Govern ment has et 10 buy am embasey and chancellery and remtals reach the top noteh. Al Berlin in the official and socia] way speaks Engiish, though Sena- tor Backet! has a general knowledge ©of German and Mre Sackeit has the usual social accomplishments sr= M. Claudel the French Ambassador who is one of the versatile dipiomatists of his era. being-the first student of foreign affairs in the Prench Republic and at the same time its most eminent dramatist and mystic poet, has enjoyed many experiences in his long career One of these was, in 1922, t0 be ap- pointed chief examiner of candidates seeking w0 enter the Prench foreign service. The Ambassador is interested in such matters and often comments on the easy role of the foreign service | personnel in conducting examinations | at the State Department. The candi- dates in Washington meekly meet all requirements in both written and oral examinations and retire at the end of several hours of anquishing labor, and they will not know the result of their test for weeks later. Not so in Quai d'Ors: re_the chief examiner Burlington Hotel 1120 Vermont Ave. Sunday Dinner, $1.00 Oyster or Pruit Cocktail Hearts of Celery Stufled Olives Tomato Bisque Consomme Roast Goose and Dressing Broiled Chicken Roast Leg of Lamb Roast Turkey Spiced Peach Mashed Potatoes Candied Sweet Potatoes Fresh Spinach Harvard Beets Stufled Pear Salad Hot Mince Pie Butterscotch Ice Cream, Cake Choice of Ice Cream and Cake Plum Pudding, Hard or Brandy Sauce No Charge for Ball Room After Dinner and du: the World War was a major n I‘.hgrl‘:flltlry Intelligence Bureau. £ ox % % Alois Lang, at the election which | was held in Oberammergau the last week of November, was chosen to suc- ceed his Cousin Anton Lang as the Christus 1 , which will begin in June in the picturesque village e Bavarian Alps. Alols was the understudy of his relative at the last Ppresentation, postponed from the usual decimal year, 1920, until 1922, because of the havoc wrought in the ranks of the players by the World War. The famous Anton, who came to the United e « M-Brooks- G- STREET BETWEEN their presence in New York _per- mits. ‘Mrs. Whitelaw Reid is of the second generation, having taken over the box of her father. the first Ogden Mills, and this she shares with her son and her daughter. Lady John Ward of London. Mrs, W. Seward Webb and | Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, sr., have the | adjacent spaces, purchased'by the late | William H. Vanderbilt, and these ladies are numbered of the second generaticn, too. The Duchess of Roxburghe, vho has been bequeathed the box purchased by her father, the late Ogden Goelet, | has_replaced ‘the ornate brass tablct | | bearing his name with a gorgeous crest | of the Dukes of Roxburghe, the first to | adorn the golden horseshoe. .In the | | recent readjustments in the Metropoli- | | tan_directorate young Cornelivs Van- derbilt Whitney “represents the fourth generation in the boxes of the original owners on the paternal side and the on the Atlantic seaboard. Congressionnl Club To Hear Monolog;st | ‘The Congressional Club will have as its artist - entertainer Friday after- noon Miss Prances Homer of Baltimore, who is a brilliant young impersonator and the author of her own monologues. | Are Now Located in Our New Home, 1202 G St. N.W. Our Bpacious, New Quarters enable us to rve You Bette ‘WINDOW SHADES_DRAPERIES—SLIP- MCcDEVITT 5555 nT I H & 2TH Real Reductions in WINTER COATS All Former $69 Coats! Many Former $79 Coats Some Former $95 Coats! Sketched P ! Drastically Reduced for Immediate Selling 39 Featuring Wanted All-Black Coats Misses’, Women’s and Extra Zes There is a particular type of woman to whom we espe- cially wish to appeal in ¢ snnouncement. She is a woman who knows that by waiting until now she will be able to save many dollars on her Winter coat, but she is also the kind of a woman who is truly “fashion fastidious” and is able to really appreciate the subtle differences of better coats. For such a woman we think the briefest glance at our $55 coats will be a most pl urable revel All of Our Higher Priced COATS—Reduced Proportionately! SECOND FLOOR COATS Mr. Thomas E. Jarrell, Mr. W. W. Griffith, Mr. Charles Jacobsen, Mr, H. Cunningham. Mr. Samuel Pennock, Lansdown, Pa.; Mr. Karl Jarrell, Mr. | | Granville Gude, Mr. Marshall Davis, | Mr. John Dolph and Mr. Will Rehder | of Wilmington, N. C. Available iron ore in La mated at 1,500,000,000 tons T % /érma SALE § COATS G OF Continues! 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