Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1930, Page 18

SOCIETY. SOCIETY WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, tained at bridge and supper in their home on Forty-third street last eve- ning, when their guests were Mr. and Mrs, Carl W.. Mitman, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Freeland, Mr. and Mrs. Harris Bald- win, Capt. and Mrs. LeRoy Shoemaker. 1930. SOCIETY. dinner at the Army and Navy Club | theatrical families, the Drews and the | Monday evening in honor of Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Briant Wells, who are to leave ‘Washington shortly. Gen. Wells has been relicved as deputy chief of staff and will go to Fort Hamilton, N, Y., to command the First Division. His suc- cessor as deputy chief of staff will be Also representing the field of the Barrymores, she has added her own | drama on the program is Sir Archibald achievements to increase the sum total | Flower, who, with Lady Flower, has ar- of success traditional with those of her | rived in Washington from iheir estate line who have preceded her, and stands today at the pinnacle of her profession. (Continued on Third Page.) Dinner Last Evening for President and Mrs. Hoover—First Lady Receives Naval Sponsors. HE President and Mrs. Hoover were entertained at dinner last evening in the Mayflower by the | Secretary of Agriculture = and | Mrs. Arthur M. Hyde. The company included Mr. Justice and Mrs. | Harlan Fiske Stone, Senator and Mrs. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, Senator and Mrs. Roscoe C. Patterson | of Missouri, Representative Dewey Short | of Missouri, Comdr. and Mrs. George M. Ravenscroft, Col. and Mrs. Raymond S. Pratt, Col. and Mrs. Hugh C. Smith, | Dr. E. B. Clements, Republican national committeeman of Missouri; Dr. Stratton D. Brooks, president of Missouri Uni- | versity, and Mrs. Brooks; Mrs, Hl‘rbfl'i‘ Hadley, wife of the former Governor of | Missoari; Mr. and Mrs. E. Lansing Ray, Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Roberts and Miss | Caroline Hyde. | Dinner was served in the Chinese | room of the hotel which was beautifully decorated with palms and ferns com- bined with pandanus and crotons, the latter a rare foliage plant of the tropics. | The guests were seated at a large round table presenting an unusually | attractive setting in the arrangement of foliage of Spring flowers, a center | mound, 5 feet in diameter, being en- | tirely filled with tiny plants of tropical | foliage, with four _crescent-shaped | plaques of blue hyacinths and yellow | narcissi _completing the decorations, except for sprays of fern, freesia and pansies strewn over the cloth. Mrs. Hoover received the Society of Sponsors at 12:30 o'clock at the White House. The society is holding its an- nual convention in Washington. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Hoover at- tended the concert, of the Liege String | Quartet. given in the auditorium of the music division of the Library of Con- gress. Vice President Curtis And Mrs. Gann Feted. The Vice President, Mr. Charles Curtis, and his sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, will be the guests in ‘whose honor Mrs. Robert Love Taylor will entertain at dinner this evening at the Washington Club. Mrs. Taylor will entertain at dinner tomorrow evening in honor of Mr. Jus- tice and Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone. ‘The Ambassador of Peru, Dr. Hernan Valarde, will sail March 7 on the Ile de France for Europe. Dr. Velarde's successor, Senor Manuel Freyre de Sandander, will arrive in Washington March 10, and will make his home at ‘Wardman Park Hotel. ‘The Ambassador of Cuba and Senora ide Ferrara will be the honor guests at dinner this evening of Mr. and Mrs. George B. McClellan. ‘The Ambassador of Germany and Frau von Prittwitz und Gaffron will return to Washington Saturday after- noon from New York, where they went the first of the week. ‘The Japanese Ambassador and Mme. Debuchi will entertain at dinner this evening in honor of the Belgian Am- bassador, Prince de Ligne. ‘Mrs. MacWhite, wife of the Minister bt the Irish Free State, will sail today on the Hambourg for Europe. The Minister, who accompanied Mrs. Mac- White to New York, will return to Washington the end of the week. ‘The Minister of Ecuador and Senora de Viteri will give a reception this after- noon at the legation at 1712 New Hamp- shire avenue from 4:30 to 6:30 o'clock. Assisting Senora de Viteri will be Senora «de Sacasa, wife of the Minister of Nica- ragua; Senora de Medina, wife of the Minister of Bolivia, and Senorita Blanca -Huerta, sister of Senora de Viteri. Mrs. Dill, wife of Senator Clarence C. Dill, will be at home informally tomor- Tow afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock in her apartment at 1026 Sixteenth street. . Wesley L. Jones, Mrs. E. Hart and assisting in the dining room will be the daughters of four Senators, Miss Anne Smith, Miss Florence Wheeler, Miss Eppes Hawes and Miss Lila Townsend. Mrs, Deneen, wife of Senator Charles L. Deneen, will not receive tomorrow afternoon and has discontinued her | Thursday afternoon receptions until| after Lent. Mrs. Allen, wife of Senator Henry J. Allen, has discontinued her Thurs- day afternoons at home until Easter. Representative and Mrs. Isaac H.| Doutrich of Harrisburg are at the Wil- | lard. With them as a guest is Mrs. | Sarah M. Etter, also of Harrisburg. | The Chief of Staff, U. S. A, and| Mrs, Charles P. Summerall will recelve Sunday afterncon from 4 to 6 o'clock in their quarters in Fort Myer. Mme. von Lewinski, wife of the Ger- man vice consul in New York, enter- tained at a charmingly arranged dance Monday evening in her home on Six- teenth street, when the guests were members of ‘the Alpha Delta Theta Sorority, of which her daughter, Miss Inger von Lewinski, is a member. There were 90 guests in the company, and a buffet supper was served at midnight. Miss Ruth Chindblom, daughter of Representative and Mrs. Carl R. Chind- blom, is president of the sorority. The newly appointed United States Minister to Bulgaria and Mrs. Henry W. Shoemaker, are in New York from where they will sail Tuesday for Mr. Shoe- maker's new post. Last evening Mr. and Mrs. Rolline Pierson Grant enter- tained at dinner in honor of the Min- ter and Mrs. Shoemaker. Mrs. Ridley McLean was hostess at luncheon today at the National Woman's Country Club on the Bracley Boulevard, entertaining in compliment to Mrs. Harry Cook of New London, Conn., who is visiting Mrs. McLean's daughter, Mrs. Charles Godwin Moore, jr. Others in the company were Mrs. Francis Wins- low, Mrs. Harvey Delano and Mrs. Leon- ard Block. The table was gay with Spring flowers and was laid in the colo- nial dining room, where a fire glowed in the fireplace. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ransley has joined her parents, Representative and Mrs. Harry Clay Ransley of Pennsylvania at the Mayflower for a short visit. Mrs. Ransley and her daughter have -spent | most of the Winter in their home in Ardmore and plan_to spend April in Washington at the Mayflower. Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius Van- derbilt have as their guest for a few days, in New York, Lady Mountbatten, who arrived in this country yesterday on the Aquitania. Maj. Gen. Malvern Hill Barnum, U. S. A, retired, and Mrs. Barnum, are house guests for a few days of Mrs. John Morse. o Col. and Mrs. Glenn S. Smith of Washington_are passing some time at the Grove Park Inn at Ashevilie, N. C. The Grand Duchess Kira was the honor guest at & dinner given last eve- ning in New York by Mrs. Henry P. Loomis, with whom she is staying until her departure for Europe, Saturday. ‘Winslow-Burks Wedding at Noon. ‘The descendants of two prominent early Colonial families of Massachu- chusetts and Virginia were matried to- day at 12 o'clock by the Rev. U. G. B. Pierce, pastor of All Souls’ Unitarian Church, the ceremony taking place in the rectory. Miss Garnette Vaughn Burks, daughter of Mrs. Hortense Vaughn Burks and the late Franklin | ‘Taliaferro Burks of Ambherst, Va., and j niece of Dr. and Mrs. George Tully Vaughn of Washington, was united in marriage to Capt. Lorenzo Simmons Winslow of Greensboro, N. C. Mrs. Winslow is one of Washington’s prom- inent younger artists, her pen and ink portraits and drawings being of excep- tional brilliance in design and execu- tion. She was a student at the Cor- coran Art Gallery, where her work e promise of a brilllant future, Worthy Values in Plated Ware Doubl May be 16-inch Meat 18-inch With se Meat Platters—Plain With removable glass lining... As a Chop Dish, without lining DuLIN @ MARTIN Connecticut Ave. ana l” Vegetable Dishes e, with removable lock-handle. used as two dishes.........51250 .....$15. Others......$10 to $25 Platters—Well and Tree .v...$25. Others.....$17.50 to $33 -Relish Dishes Gravy Boats parate or attached tray........ PARKING SERVICE—Connecticut Avenue Entrance MRS. LAWRENCE TOWNSEND, # i # 4 i S MRS. COPLEY AMORY, Sponsors for the Melton concert in Constitution Hall Friday evening, given under the auspices of the Women’s Guild of the Central Union Mission and Children’s Emergency Home. Stahl will direct the program. A Capella chorus will assist and Ruby Smith tracting the attention of the country's leading artists. Her charming per- sonality has made Mrs. Winslow a so- cial favorite prominent in Washington and New York society circles. She is a descendant of many of Virginia’s most prominent eariy Colonial families and is twenty-first in direct descent from King Edward III of England. Mr. Winslow is a prominent archi- tect in North Carolina, where he has been resident for the last 10 years, going there from Massachusetts. He is & de- scendant of Gov. Winslow, Gov. Brad- ford, John Alden and several other May- flower passengers and many of the prominent Puritan families of Boston, Sixty-seven of his ancestors came to America before 1630. He attended the post officers’ camp at Plattsburg in 1917, being commissioned an officer of Engineers and served over- seas two years as a general staff officer with Gen. Pershing’s staff and the head- quarters of the 1st Army Corps, taking part in five major battles of the Ameri- can Expeditionary Force. After the armistice he attended the Ecole des member of the So- y Descendants, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Order of Colonial Governors, the Society of the War of 1812, the Order of Lafayette, the New England Historical and Gen- eonological Society and many other hereditary and military orders. Mr. and Mrs, Winslow are members of the Arts Club of Washington. After a motor trip through New Eng- land Mr. and Mrs. Winslow will be at home after March 15 in Greensboro, Dr. and Mrs. Matthew White Perry have returned to Washington and are at home in the Presidential. Follow- ing their marriage, February 12, in the home of former Senator and Mrs. Na- thaniel B. Dial, Dr. and Mrs, Perry motored to Atlantic City and from there took a Southern trip. Mrs. Perry, formerly Miss Fannie Dodson Dial, gave but little advance notice of her mar- riage, thus surprising society. Mr. and Mrs. Julius C. Martin were hosts at dinner last evening, enter- taining in their home, at 2101 Connec- ticut avenue, for Judge and Mrs. E. K. Campbell and former Representative and Mrs. J. A. Adair of Indiana, Mrs. Van Reypen and her daughter, Baroness Korff, are spending a month in Florida. Mrs. Albert Baggs has been called out of the city on account of the death of a near relative and has postponed the afternoon she had planned, with Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews as speaker, at the Washington Club tomorrow aft- ernoon, under the auspices of the Major L’Enfant Chapter, D. A. R. Lady Lister Kaye, who has been at the Mayflower for a month, will go tomorrow to New York, where she will be at the Ambassador until she salls for her home in England. Mr. Kermit Roosevelt and Mr. John W. Franklin of New York, are at the Willard. Mrs. Arthur Stanley Riggs has gone to New York for a short visit, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Roper are ing at the Wardman Park Hotel while opening their home on Woodland drive. Mr. and Mrs. Roper have recently re- turned from Florida where they passed six weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Ward Howard of Urbana, Ohlo, are staying at the Wil- lard for several days. Mrs. E. J. Merrick and Mr. E. J. Merrick, jr, of Lyon Park, Va, are spending 10’ days at Miami, F1 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Groover have returned to the Hay-Adams House, after spending several weeks cruising to the West Indies and other Carribean ports. Returning by way of Florida, they were guests of Mrs. Groover's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex- ander Boddie, who reside in Miami, Mr. and Mrs. James F. Nol Wild Rice Delicious Served With GAME OR ROASTS enter- One-Pound Carton.....9c Magruder Inc. Best Groceries Conn. Ave, M and 18th Sts. Phone Decatur 4180. 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Graham of Danville, Va., has met her daughter, Mrs. Vincent M. | | Smith of Globe, Ariz, at the Dodge | | Hotel and is spending several days | | there. | Society Horse Show Box | Parties Saturday Afternoon, | Gen. and Mrs. Charles P. Summerall | have been added to the list of box- holders for the Society Horse Show to be held Saturday at the Riding and Hunt Club. Others who have taken boxes are Maj. and Mrs. George Patton, Maj. and Mrs. Howard Davidson, Capt. | Paul Downing, Capt. Christopher Rodgers, Mrs. Joseph H. Himes, Mrs. Arthur Foraker, Mrs. Gist Blair, Mrs. | Eugene M Mrs, McKee Dunn and | Mrs. E. H. Liscum, Keen interest is being shown in the children’s show at 2 o'clock in the after- noon. Miss Elizabeth Jackson, member of the committee in charge of entries, has received nearly 100 entries in the seven events on the card. Marilyn Him pony has been shipped from Frederic for the show and she will ride her frisky mount in three of the classes. 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