Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1930, Page 17

SOCIETY | Henry Albers, Mrs. H. M. Mrs. Franklin E. the Twentieth Century City. Miss Esther Mayher, who is corre- pter at a recepi Hotel, Tuesday night, from 8:30 h | until 11 o’elock. o'clock, willebe followed by tea, will be Mrs. George , Mrs, Gerald P. Nye, Mrs. Newton, Mrs. J. Lincoin New- hall, Mrs. Charles O'Connor, Mrs. Ca- milo Osias, Mflihno:!fl L. Owen, Rep- resentative Ru ryan Owen, Mrs. John T.”i’nu. Mrs. James 8. Parker and Mrs. James H. Patten. ‘The Rev. and Mrs. C. Everett Wagner of New York City Due to iliness e family, the re- ception to ‘be given by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Rowe Zimmerman in honor of | their daughter, Miss Zimmerman, at their home in Baltimore Sunday, January 26, will not take place. Wrenn-Russell Engagement. Announced in Parents’ Home. Mr.and Mrs. V. Clyde Wrenn, have announced the engagement of their daughter Hylda Mae to Mr. Willlam Irvine Russell, formerly of Washing- , now of Allentown, Pa., son of Mr. Eleanor Seymour and Mrs, Robert Lee Russell of Wesley | 1, feights. ‘this city. No date has been set, for the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Wrenn gave a charm- ingly appointed party Thursday for their daughter, when the engagement was an- nounced to the guests. Miss Wrenn attended George Wash- ington University and is a member of the Chi Omega Sorority. Mr. Russell was graduated from the University of Mary- Jand last June and immediately accept- ed a position in Allentown. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity. . The Vice Governor General of the Philippine Islands, Dr. Eugene Allen Gilmore. anc Mrs. Gilmore have re- turned to Washington from a New York trip and will be guests at the May- flover for an indefinite period. The executive _committee of the Seventh Annual Bal Boheme to take place on Monday night of next week, January 27, at 10 o'clock, at the Wil- lard, announces the following additional list of well known women of the Capi- tal City who have accepted the Arts Club’s invitation to serve as patronesses for the ball: Senora de Recinos, Senora de Sacasa, Mrs. Charles F. Hughes, Senora de Lieva, Mme. Skalicky, Mrs. Henry J. Allen, Senora de Iglesias, Senora de Galeno, Mme. Raoul Grenade, Frau Kipp, Frau Leit- ner, Mme. Siqueland, Senora Perdome, ¥, £, Dy M, et W , . Wal ruce Howe, Mrs. Paul PFitzsimons, Mrs. Frederick Augustus Parkhurst, Mrs. Ollie James, Mrs. Harry 8. New and Mrs. Robert E. Lee. Mrs. Helen McCoy will hold her usual Thursday® tea, at Shadowall, her studio-home, 1525 Thirty-first street, Georgetown. She will receive between 3 and 7 o'clock. No cards will be issued. The work of many prominent artists exhibited. A collection of antique Prench prints will be on display. Miss -Katherine Morris will pour tea, Mrs. Alfred Craven and Miss Yvonne Morse will assist. ‘The Indiana Society of Washington will entertain with an, unusual pro- gram tonight in the small ball room present as guest, speaker 'S !lmm Baxter of London, England, of ho is the guest of Mrs. John Mock | ‘Washin, interest has been arranged., Miss Bax- ter was associated Withk, Mrs. Mock in the war days dn Londen -when-'they were in wor] . She ;lm talk briefly, following which'a musi- Kincheloe, in Kin- cheloe of Kentucky. and her talented daughter, Jean. They will present a varied program of music, dancing and Whistling. Following them will come Mr. Benjamin Cain, jr. in a carefully group ‘of-"Negro spiritudls and songs. . At the close of the program, dancing and cards will bé the feature for the femainder of thé evening. Dancing to start at 10 o'clock and continuing until 12 o'clock.~ g . line, headed by tative and Mrs. Canfleld, the soclety’s president and Mr. and Mrs. John Mack will be the of the evening, Senator and Mrs. James . Watson, Senator and Mrs. Arthur R. Robinson, the rest of the Indiana jonal delegation and officers of the society. Mrs. Herbert D. Brown, who was to have told of the writing of her hook, “Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years,” at the Arts Club this evening, has been detained in the West and her talk has been postponed. Rev. Moses Rich- ardson Lovell, pastor of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, has consented to be the guest of honor and Speaker this evening in place of Mrs. Brown. Mr. Lovell has gained distinction for himself throughout the country as the founder of the Life Adjustment Bureau, and, at the request of Arts Club mem- bers, will give a brief outline.of his work in this direction. The League of Republican Women will entertain at its regular monthly tea at Republican national headquar- fers, 910 Seventeenth street, on Priday, from 4 to 6 o'clock. The president. Mrs. Edward A. Harri- man, owing to illness, cannot be present 1o greet the members and invited guests. n:'vtrnnn ‘White e trict of Columbia, will act as hostess. Those presiding at the tea table will be: Mrs. Maurice H. Thatcher, wife of the Representative from Kentus Pasternak’s Clearance Reductions Conforming to our usual custom we .are making drastic reduc- tions to reduce stocks béfore inventory. For Example: Dresses A Groupat........518 A Group at........529 | 4 Group at........535 A Group at........ 45 Every item a most remarkable value at the price quoted. Mrs. George W. Muller entertained at & luncheon and bridge at her home in the St. Albans yesterday in honor of her guest, Miss Annell Hardy of Chi- cago, and Mrs. Waiter Kilbourne of New York. Guests were Mrs. David H. Kincheloe, Mrs. Edward Campbell Shields, Mrs. Warner J. O'Leary, Mrs. Walter Kilbourne, Mrs. Elizabeth ! Northrup, Mrs. Marshall O. Leighton, { Mrs. Monroe E. Miller, Mrs. Horace | Chandlee, Mrs. Judson Cary Dale, Mrs. Eva Dell Myers, Mrs. Newton Long- . fellow, Mrs. Virgil Y. Moore, Mrs. S. J. ( Bryson, jr.; Mrs. Ronald Hicks, Miss | Edith Osborn and Miss Hardy. ‘The Missouri Society will hold its next meeting, which will be at the ‘Washington Hotel, Saturday evening, January 25, to be more than usually interesting to the members, as the guests of honor will be Missouri's for- mer governor and present cabinet mem- ber, the Secretary of Agriculture, Mrs. Arthur H. Hyde and Miss Caroline Hyde. Mrs. Harry B. Hawes, wife of Senator Hawes, and Mrs. C. Patterson, wife of Senator Patterson, will head the list of hostesses for the evening and will have assisting them wives of the Representatives from Missouri — Mrs. C. Dyer, Mrs. M. A. Romjue, Mrs. Edgar C. Ellis, Mrs. J. L. Milligan, Mrs. Clarence Cannon, Mrs. Joe J. Manlov Mrs. W. L. Nelson, %fl. John J. Coc ner, Mrs. John W. Palmer, Mrs. Row- land L. Johnston and Mrs. Thomas J. Halsey. Presentations will be made by Capt. Fred H. Poteet, U. 8. N, and among other Missouri guests who are expected to be present are Mrs. John W. Lyman, Kansas City; Admiral Robert E. Coontz, Mrs. Frank E. Shelden, Kansas City; Brig. Gen. C. R. Krauthoff and Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose, Kansas City. The reception will be followed by dancing, the floor being in charge of Mr. John B. Gordon, Mr.. Floyd F. Hanly, Mr. Stanley H. Ridings, Mr. Ernest E. Hall and Mr. W. W. Badgley Admission will be by card, and invi- tations have been sent to members by the secretary, Mrs. Otis J. Rogers, Flor- ence Court, from whom information re- garding guest cards may be obtaified, and also from the president, Repre- sentative Joe J. Manlove; the chajrman of the reception committee, Mrs. E. H. Andrew; the chairman of the program committee, Mrs. C. P. Keyser, or officers of the soclety. Mrs. George Burchfield and daugh- ter, Miss Lena O. Allen of Washington, are staying at the Edgewater Gulf Ho- tel on the Gulf of Mexico. They will visit Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans be- fore their return home, Women of Congressional at Pen League Breakfast. At the table, which Mrs. Clarence M. Busch, national president of the Na- tional League of American Pen Women, has taken for her personal guests at the Celebrity breakfast of the Pen Set .| Women Saturday will be Mrs. Charles S. Deneen, wife of Senator Deneen of Tlinois: Mrs. Samuel Hof, Mrs. George C. Thorpe, Mrs. Holland Reavis of Paris, France; Mrs. Andrew Reid of Baltimore, Mrs. Robinson Downey, Mrs. Algernon ‘Binyon, Mrs. Eugene Collister, Miss Katharine Bennett and Miss Eleanor Shutt. Mrs. John J. Cochran, wife of Repre- sentative Cochran of Missouri, will be hostess at a table of 10. Mrs. Willlam C. Poster will have as her guests Mrs. Adele Graham of Chicago, Tl and Mrs. Thomas Hutchinson. * Mrs. Teresa Dean will entertain Mrs. Rutherford Bingham at the table for which Mrs. Nina Swalm Reed is spon- sor and others at this table will be Mrs, Pauline Swalm, Mrs. John W. Ben- nett, Miss Patricia Poe Bennett, Mrs. Bade Catharine Coles, State vice presi- dent for the league in Virginia; Mrs. Percy Wilkinson, Mrs. Isabel S. Shep- ard, Miss Florence Long and Miss May Gildersleeve. Additional subscribers are Miss Anne Darlington, Mrs. John W. Thompson and Mrs. Homer Kipp, all of whom will entertain guests; also Mr.: John Walker Holcombe, Mrs. Flor- ence Barnes, chairman of the poetry group of the District of Columbia League of American Pen Women; Mrs. I C. Hanscom, Mrs. A. J. Seaton. Mrs. J. 8. Griffith and Miss E. M. Bullard. ‘The executive officers and chairmen of committees of the Idaho State So- city held a meeting last evening in the office of Senator John Thomas of Idaho for the purpose of discussing plans for the fifth annual Territorial day ban- quet held each year commemorating the creation of Idaho Territory on March 3, 1867. The State of Idaho, through its State Chamber of Commerce. always co- operates with the Washington Society in the matter of furnishing the Idaho bakers, which are the piece de resis- tance of the banquet, and everything on the menu and in the decorative scheme down to the sagebrush and white pine, comes from the native State. On this date the Pioneers and sons and daugh- ers of ploneers are honored and their impromptu reminiscences are listened to with great interest by the temporary exiles from the Gem State. Among those present at the meeting were the president of the organization. Mr. G, Osmund Hyde; Mrs. Joshua Evans, formerly Miss Jesse Dubois Fant, the first white child born on the In- dian reservation at Fort Hall, Idaho; Mrs. C. C. Moore, wife of the former governor; Mrs. Earl Venable, Mr. Walter Smith, son of Representative Addison T. Smith of Idaho and' the first presi- dent of the society; Mrs. Blanche Sten- ger, Miss Cora Rubin, Mrs. Blanche Stafford, secretary; Mrs. Lucille Earl, Prof. Earl Arnold of the George Wash- ington _University School of Law, Mr. Fred Brossard, Mr. Willlam Holden, chairman of membership and finance, and Miss Toussaint Dubois, chairman cf publicity. Representative Harry B. Steagall was the guest of honor and speaker at the weekly forum luncheon of the Woman's National Democratic Club yesterday. His subject was “Panics and Politics. Among those at the luncheon were Mrs. C. C. Dill, who entertained a party of 22 guests. Some of the others were Mrs. Wilbur W. Hubbard, Mrs. George M. Eckels. Mrs. Rose Yates For- rester and Mrs. Frank Bright. ‘The marriage of Mr. E. L. Cockrell and Miss Bessie McKnew took place December 28 at the Episcopal Church in Rockville, Md., with the Rev. Millard F. Minnick officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Cockrell went to Miami Beach, Fla., and will return for the opening of the Orkney Spring Hotel in Vh’,lnil‘ Mr. Cockrell is president of the Ork- ney Spring Hotel. . Mrs. A. Dewitt Widdemer will be honor guest at the “Hour With Great Story Tellers” which will be given this evening in her new studio at the Port- land Hotel by Mrs. Florence Jackson Stoddard. The “story” to be told is “Old Miss,” by T. 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Choice of rose, tan, and blue grounds—the three shades that will blend with any color scheme you have. As to quality—the best test will be to come in and walk on the deep, soft pile—and actually compare these rugs with our other, regular, higher priced rugs. 9x12 and 8.3x10.6 foot size. . Rugs—Fifth Floor $40.00 and $45.00 Values New Styles Aplenty Exciting Mid-Season Values Sale of Fur- Enjoy Ice Sports Now! Men’s and Women’s Racer-Type Hockey Skates, $7.50 Attached Shoes Included Ankle-bracing shoes, with warm felt innersole; attached Alfred Johnson skates, very light and speedy because of the hollow aluminum tubing. Blades of sharp, keen cutting steel. Women's sizes, 4 to &; men’s, 5 to 11. Children’s Sizes 1 to 5 $6.50 Toys—Fourth Fioor Featuring Black With Rich Black Furs 35 $49.50 to $59.50 Values New coats, made to our own specifications, at the present low cost of manufacturing, materials - and furs! Every coat in the lot styled with lines Washington women want! Every coat in the lot is beautifully lined with crepe-back satin! Every coat in the lot is expertly tailored and finished! Black, brown and tan, with Manchurian wolf, caracul, skunk (pieced); wolf, muskrat, and mar- mink. Misses’ and women’s sizes up to 50. ‘Women's @ Marvel-Fit Union Suits A Famous Product of the Kayser Mills 79¢c A union suit that lives up to its well chosen name! Built to fit, of a fine ribbed ma- terial that insures a smooth unbroken line for under frocks with the new silhouette. Strap and built-u . shoulder styles witl loose or tight knees and open or closed drawers. White only; sizes 36 to 44, 3 Underwear—Third Floor 'd Misses’ Conts—Second Floor Men’s $2.00 and $2.50 Hand-Tailored Ties $1.65 + v Every tie in this collection was taken- fr%m our own higher- priced stocks and reduced! There are satins, basket weaves, twills, brocades and homespuns—all fine domestic or imported silks—some silk lined! Neat all-over patterns, stripes and widely spaced figured designs—in rich, well blended shadings! Ties of good taste. Men's Wear Shop—Street Floor