Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1930, Page 18

SOCIETY. SOCIETY The First Lady of the Land Hostess to Small Company Informally This Afternoon. RS. HOOVER will be hostess to M & small group of guests this afternoon at the tea hour, re- celving at 4:30 o'clock, The Vice President, Mr. Charles Senator and Mrs. Henry J. Allen of Kansas will entertain at dinner in the Mayflower this evening. Senator Allen succeeded the Vice President in the Senate when the latter was elected to his present office. Cuban Em and Lady Celebrating Cuban Revolt. ‘The Ambassador of Cuba and Senora De Ferrara will entertain a company of 46 at dinner this evening in cele- bration of Grita De Baire, the start of the Cuban revolution for inde- pendence. The company will include the heads of Latin American missions in Washington and a number of others. The Ambassador and Senora De Ferrara were hosts at dinner last eve- ning, entertaining in compliment to the Ambassador of France and Mme. Claudel. Others in the company were the Minister of Portugal and Viscountess d’Alte, the Chinese Minister and Mme. ‘Wu, the Minister of South Africa and Mrs. Louw, Mr. Justice and Mrs. Har- lan Fiske Stone, Senator and Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, Senator and Mrs. Jesse H. Metcalf, Senator and Mrs. ‘Tasker L. Oddie, Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom, Representative and Mrs. James M. Beck, the counselor of the Italian embassy, Conte Marchetti; Gen. and Mrs. James E. Fechet, the attache of the Italian embassy, Comdr. Silvio Scaroni; the commercial counselor of the Swedish legation and Mme, Weidel, th‘;;ecrehry of the Ger- | Kéys. man embassy Frau Leitner, the secretary of the Panama legation and Senora De Chevalier, the first secre- tary of the Bolivian legation and Senora De la Barra, the second sec- Jahncke in their a) ent Commodore in the Mayflower late in Marc! Representative and Mrs. John W. Summers have with them for the week their da -in-law, Mrs. Burks Sum- mers of P} , who arrived today. Former Senator and Mrs. William Cabell Bruce will entertain at dinner abeth DuPon! Del., and will take their guests later to the second bachelors’ cotillon in the Lyric tonight. Former Senator and Mrs. Joseph I. France will also be hosts at dinner be- fore the cotillon. Grand Duchess Kira is expected to go of Mrs. Henry P. Loomis at the 'k Lane until she safls for south- France, accompanied by Mrs. ern Deming Jarvis. Mrs. Loomis will come to Washing- ton PFriday to be the houseguest of Mrs. Rushmore Patterson. Former Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross of ‘Wyoming, will entertain at dinner this evening at the Mayflower Hotel in honor of her sister-in-law, Mrs. George Tayloe of Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. William Fitch Kelley was hostess at the National Woman’s Country Club on the Bradley boulevard. Her guests were Mrs. Charles L. McNary, Mrs. Lloyd Mrs. Marion Butler, Mrs. Mary Stewart, Mrs. Lincoln Green, Mrs. Charles Alger, Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, Mrs. Wilbur Turner, Mrs. Harry C. Huse, Mrs. James O. Murdock, Mrs. William Barret Ridgely, Mrs. C. Fre- mont, Mrs. Lucy Wilder Morris, Miss Alida Henriques and Mrs. Edward A. Mrs. Kelley and her sister, Miss Martha McClure, gave a buffet supper Saturday evening in the Washington Club for the members of the Iowa dele- gation in Congress and other Iowans in public life in Washington. Capt. and Mrs. Joseph R. Darnall entertain a company of 58 at dinner {and dancing at the Army, Navy and mmm.ommnmmubmum- ‘The Ambassador of Chile and Senora de Davila entertained at dinner last Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen is chair- man of the judges’ committee for the annual costume ball of the Kentucky Society, to be held tomorrow evening at the Mayflower Hotel. Serving with him on the committee will be Mrs. Simon Boliver Buckner, Mrs. Charles Kerr, Mr, Randolph Leigh and Mrs, - | Theodore J. Pickett. The ball promises to be one of the ;| most colorful in the history of the society and a large and distinguished company will be in attendance. The president of the society, Col. Allen Gul- lion, will lead the grand march with Mme. Debuchi, who, with the Ambassa- J | dor of Japan, will be the honor-guests Polich, and the secretary, Senor Pon Manuel Valdes. ‘The Attorney General and Mrs. Mitchell, the Secretary of- Commerce and Mrs. Lamont and the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Walter Ewing Hope have been at Yea- mans Hall, an exclusive club near The Ladies of the Senate will not bave their weekly luncheon tomorrow owing to the Mrs. Jahncke, wife of the acting Sec- fetary of the Navy, left Washington yesterday for her home in New Orleans for several weeks’ stay and will join LIP COVERS MADE TO FIT YOUR FURNITURE m ©of materials and estimates gladly Just Phone Dist. McDEVITT - Hens Distriet 3211 From 9:15-Noon Only! 60 DRESSES Sport—Street—Dinner— Evenin;., Sizes 1644, $5.00 LT S ST S0 S8 e 8 A0 bt it 18 L Morrow, Mrs. W. F. Geneva Dunham and Mr., Clifford 5 ‘Thatcher, Representative and Mrs. Darts ~ yoke. Sizes 14 to 20. :4}1“ New York today, where she will be . MRS. JOHN SPENCER NESBITT, Formerly Miss Alice McDonough, daugh- ter of Mrs. Michael McDonough, her marriage to’ Lieut. Nesbitt taking place at Fort Humphreys, Va. February 3. —Clinedinst Photo. resentative and will be hosts J. D. Craddock and Mrs. John W. Moore to parties of guests. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford K. Berryman will have as their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Fulton Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam H. Sholes, Mr. and Mrs. William 8. Corby, Miss Florence Berryman and Mr, John D. Long. Officials and Others Sponsor Musicale for Russian Benefit. Washington society is expected to fully support the coming concert to be given on the evening of March 6, at :30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, on Sixteenth street, for the " | benefit of the General Hospital and sev- eral small orphan asylums for the ‘use of the Russian exiles in Sofia, Bulgaria. Despite the number of years since the war these two. philanthropies have been carried on with no small measure of success, and are responsible for saving the lives of hundreds of persons suffer- will | ing with tuberculosis; It is only with the help of others that S-Piece Parlor Suites . Antiq 3 *3-Piece Overstuffed Suites Dining Room Chairs ert Blackburn, Representative and Mrs. U A FASHION INSTITUTION \Washington | Be Suited To the Occasion NewYork Of course you want @ suit . , , and there are so many exciting new ones! But if you want a smart suit at a moderate price, here is where you will find it! The Sports Shop has just received some of the very newest tweeds . « . those fascinating loose weaves that are sturdy and practical ... like the traditional Brit- ish tweeds in wearing qualities, with a French smoothness of cut . - in soft tones flecked with color, Size and color ranges are complete now! Too smart for words . . . A sheer, loose-weave tweed . . . this one in a lovely light green mixture, others in rust or tan . . . with its mannish coat belted at the front only . . of crepe with cap sleeves and its skirt newly pleated with a double-buckled . its tuck-in The Sports Shop Fourth Floor SRS MR S L ORI S Y on January 19, 1927, Among the more recent subscribers are Senator Lawrence Phipps, Senator . Henry ' Winfield ‘Watson, Mrs. James Southworth Parker, Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, Mrs, Law- rence Richey, Mr. Howard Moran, Mrs. | John C. Simpson, Mrs. William Pitch Kelley, Miss Evelyn Sutton Weems, Miss Bessie Kibbey, Mr. Bascom Slemp, Mrs. L. Corrin Strong, Mrs, Edward | ‘Walker, Mrs. Joseph Thropp, Mrs. Law- | rence Townsend, Baroness Korff, Dr. | David J. Hill, Judge John Barton Payne, Mrs, Henry Fitch, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Mr. Willlam Butterworth and Mr. | 'Charles Denby. | Former United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James and Mrs. John W. Davis are spending some time in Augusta, Ga., where they are at the Bon Air Vanderbilt Hotel. Mrs. James A. Cahill entertained at a bridge luncheon today at the Chevy Chase Club, When her guests were Mrs. William Arthur Morgan, Mrs. Joseph J. Crowley, Mrs. Pred Sanderson, Mrs. Frank Duehring, Mrs. Frederick Stohl- man, Mrs. John Foote, Mrs. Thomas R. Crowley, Mrs. Casimir Leibell, Mrs. Rob- ert Maher, Mrs. D. W. O'Donoghue, Mrs. Francis X. Callahan, Mrs, Pere A. | Wilmer, Mrs. D. C. Shea, Miss Mary | Callahan, Mrs. Sterling Meade. Mrs Floyd Harrison, Mrs. John Beatty, Mrs. (Continued on Third Page.) 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