Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1930, Page 19

. SOCIETY > Mrs. have lunch parties Friday. e nando Cuniberti will have a large lunch party Tuesday at the club. Already numbers of dinner parties are being arranged to precede the Bal Boheme at the Willard Monday eve- ning, January 27, by outstanding host- esses who will entertain distinguished | guests in their boxes on that occasion. | The ball will open at 10 o'clock, fol-| lowed at 10:30 o'clock by the impressive march of the floor committee, with Dr. Frederick V. Coville at its head. Practically all box parties will be in their places before the floor committee makes its entrance, as the annual ap- arance. of the Bal Boheme “army” one of the most effective events of the entire ball. “The adventurers” will make their appearance as the big stunt of ball, promptly at 11 o'clock, and rdparations now being consummated gyv tensive rehearsals of all members of the big cast of players, chosen by THE EVENING NEW IN OFFICIAL LIFE Mrs. Maud Howell Smith, as director of casting, and directed by William F.| Baker, promise the most gorgeous pageantry and the most entertaining | carnival in the history of the famous ' B2l Boheme. Due to numerous inquiries and re- quests for single box seats on the eve- ning of the bal, the executive commit- tee, headed by Mrs. John Otto Johnson. announces that a limited number of single box seats are now available at the clubhouse, 2017 I street, and that good boxes yet remain . single box seats are both in the floor boxes and in the balcony boxes, where a fine view may be had of the many alluring stunts on the floor. Bal Boheme tickets will be placed to- day, by the executive committee, at the leading hotels in the city for the greater convenience of the public, but the Arts Club will remain the headquarters for | both tickets and boxes for the Bal yeme until the night of the bal, all tickets will be transferred to villard Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur N. Pack of Princeton, N. J., are passing some time at the Carlton. Mrs. John French, Mrs. James S. Cushman and Miss Katharine Lahbert of New York, directors of the Dodge Hotel, are staying at the Dodge while attending the conference on the cause and cure of war. Miss Mabel Head of Cleveland, also a_director of the hotel, is at the Dodge Hotel during the con- ference. Mr. Daniel Edgar Utz, son of Dr. and M-5. A. Thomas Utz, has gone to Miami fc: several weeks stay. t:s. M. W. Ferguson of Re-aoke, Va, th> Carlton for several days, ac- ¢ anied by Mrs. D2 Moss Taylor 2lio ©! Roanoke. Mr. and Mrs. S. A..Morgan of Evan- ston, Wyom., are spending several days at the Dodge Hotel. Miss Laura Verran has returned to MRS. STANLEY REED, Virgil Miller, Mrs. Ernest Daniel and others. ‘Tomorrow will be Navy day in the book shop of the Wi n commit- tee of the American Merchant Marine Library Association, which is conduct. ing a book drive at 1364 Connecticut avenue for 10,000 books for the use of the men of lighthouses, lightships, coast guard and merchant marine. Mrs, rles Francis Adams designated as | Wife of the general counsel of the Federal Farm Board, who accompanied her husband from their Kentucky home and is living at the Mayflower. & Ewing Photo. e tnrmughout Spatn tn the past 10w years. At.the breakfast he will give fascinating glimpses into thé Spanish character as he has come to know it. HOURS, §:45 to 6 altcrnates before she loft for Len- |- st ife of ths acting Sccreta: o and Mrs, David S. Ingalls, wife of the Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics. Assisting them will' be ladies from the Navy group of W n soclety, Mrs. Charles P. Hughes, Mrs. Arthur L. Wil- Washington and will be at the Carlton | Mrs. through the remainder of the season. Miss Verran has in New York been through the Autumn and early Winter, | Brinks after spending the Summer in her home at Lgke Placid. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Willlams have motored over from their home in Balti- more and are stopping at the Carlton. Mrs, J. N. McEachern of Atlanta, Ga., i= at the Dodge Hotel. The Tau Sigma Phi Sorority will give 2 banquet and dance in the Hotel Roose- velt Saturday. Miss Ruth Huntington is chairman’ of the committee on ar- rangements. Mrs. Gann Honor Guest Of Political Study Club. Mrs, Bruce Baird, president of the the Political Study Club, will be host- ess to Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, the honor guest for the meeting of the Pol Study Club to be held Satur- day, in the Washington Club, at Seven- teenth and K streets. Mr. Alfred Haag, director of Interna- tional Shipping School of Foreign Serv- | ice at George Washington University, will address the club on this occasion, | when his subject will be ‘“American Merchant Marine” Miss Dorothy Sin- nott, soprano, will give several selec- tions. Presiding at the tea table will be Mrs. , Mrs. Willilam D. 7, MIs. Paul L. Reed and Mrs. Charles O. W. er. Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, chairman of the Washington committee, was grati- fled that Monday, the first day of the book drive for this worthy cause, more than 600 books were donated and nearly 1,000 magazines. “The Other Side of the Moon” is the | intriguing title that has been chosen by Mr. Arthur Stanley Riggs for the brief talk he will give as one of the guests of honor and speakers at the fourth celebrity breakfast of the National League of American Pen Women Saturday, January 25, at the Willard Hotel. Mr. Riggs, who is editor of Art and Archaeology and a director of the Soclety, has for years made an intensive study of the Spanish fleople as revealed in their terature, supplemented by Alfred Haag and Mrs. George H. Cal- | vert, jr.; others in the dining room of- ficiating will be Mrs. Willlam Laird Dunlcp, Mrs. Gertrude Bischoff, Mrs. | Public Invited to COURSE OF EDUCATIONAL LECTURES “The Truth About Oriental Rugs” NEJIB H EKIMIAN - EVERY Thursday Evening, 8:30 - Beginning Thursday, Jan. 16 1226 Conn. Ave. Courtesy of NAZARIAN & HEKIMIAN, INC. Mid-Season CLEARANCE ENTIRE STOCK OF WINTER COATS Fur-Trimmed and Sports Coats—, Untrimmed Coats Evening Wraps SUITS Costume and Sports Ensembles Drastically Reduced STAR, W/ | will | Cloman_will also be at the speakers’ His book. entitled “Spanish P.[élnt." which was written as an interpretation of the people of Spain, will be reviewed | by Mrs. Nina Swalm T2ed, who will again be heard in this book review feature of the breakfast. ‘Washington society folk, with whom SHINGTON. D. C. WEDNESDAY, Cormick-Goodhart, Mr. ‘Tumulty, Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, | r.; Mrs. R. 8. Reynolds Hitt, Mrs. Delos A.'Blodgett, Mrs. Sherman Flint, Mrs. Newbold Noyes, Mr. Henry C. Sheridan, Walter Bruce Mr, these breakfasts are very ar, are looking forward with npeclril:amt to | mick: the talk to be given on this program by Mrs, Henry Sturgis, who is making her first visit to this country and is _the guest of Mrs. Sydney A. Cloman. Mrs. Sturgis is the daughter of George Meredith, famous English man of let- ters, and it is of her father that she speak at the breakfast. Mrs. table. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Codman | Sturgis, the former a nephew, through | marriage, of Mrs. Henry Sturgis, will also attend the breakfast. Mrs. Joseph Leiter is chairman and Mrs. John Philip Hill vice chairman of the committee which is sponsoring the engagement of the American Opera Company, which will open at Poli’s ‘Theater Monday evening. ‘The committee of sponsors includes the Ambassador of German von Prittwitz und Gaffron, ti of the Netherlands and Mme. Royen, Senator Arthur Capper, Repre- sentative Ruth M. Pratt, Mrs. Richard S. Aldrich, Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, Mrs. Hamilton Fish, + Mrs. Leander Mc- Mrs. Tracy Dows, Butterworth, Mrs. Hennen Jennings, Mrs. Walter D. Denegre, Mrs. Sydney A. Cloman, Col. Arthur O'Brien, Mrs. Armistead Peter, 3d; Mrs. Frederic A. Keep. Mrs. Frank C. Letts, Mrs. Paul H. Bastedo and Mrs. H. H. Barton, jr. | “This will mark the third annual sea- son of the American Opera Company in | Washington, as this company made 1its debut in the National Capital in 1927, and in three short seasons the itinerary of this noted organization has grown from 4 cities to 40 in which they will play this year. The company comes direct from its New York engagement where it met with great success, being held over an extra week. Some of the prominent national sponsors of the American Opera Com- pany who are responsible for its great success throughout the country are Mr. and Mrs. William T. 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Clpmt 1 hnnh;slm lll&u:n d war ent, wl leco~ rated by the highest insignias of the vian government and the allies for his llaison work during the war and in connection with his subsequent peace negotiations, will be the speaker of the Bureau of Commercial Economics at the Carlton Hotel Sunday night next with films of Jugoslavia in honor of his excellency the Minister of Jugoslavia, | Dr. Leonide Pitamic. New and beautiful films will be shown | with music, while Capt. Gordon Gordon Smith's vivid stories always have a tremendous drawing power, and 50 seats have been reserved on written re- quest for members of the diplomatic corps. The Woman's National Democratic Club has arranged a course of six lec- itions in Amer- ican History” by Dr. W. 8. Holt, Ph.D., assistant professor at Gieorge Washing- N ‘The lectures wiil be 1 and February 7, 14 11:30 to 12:30 o'clock. The subject of the first lecture will be “The Modern Explanation of the American Revolution,” and the second one, “The Economic Interpretation of the' Constitution.” The speaker will re- main for luncheon tc answer informally any quéstions that may be asked. Non- members will be welcomed. ‘The Southern Society will have the presidents of all the State societies as their guests of honor at the reception and ball Thursday, January 23, in the Willard Hotel. At a meeting of the executive commit- tee Mr. J. Cloyd Byars, president. was authorized to name 48 “Southern beauties” to act as sponsors to the presidents of the various State sociefies. presidents of the different socie- ties and their wives or husbands are ex- pected to be in the receiving line and meet the members and their guests as they arrive. Danc! will follow the reception, after action is taken upon the applica- tions for membership. Boxes will be reserved for the guests of honor and in esTimaied or dhe vice presidents of the ted for the vi e heir respecti This m"fifl tl ive States. first time the Southern Society has Socictien, "2 lurge and" Fepresentative ) and representative company is expected. ‘Women from 22 States will be guests at the tea given by Miss Charl O. Williams, education chairman of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, this after- | noon in her home at 2727 Connecticut | avenue, who are delegates frcm that or- | ganization to the Cause and Cure of War Conference. The majority of these dele~ gates will also attend the dinmer given |at the American Association of Uni- | versity Women tomorrow evening by the Business and Professional Women's Club of the District of Columbia. h’l;:; lfn‘;t“e &l' !upubhl-n womgl. Wi Wi ve r luncheon to- in the anflm reservations club at 2:15 o'clock to hear Miss Mary L. 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