Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1930, Page 43

Features for Women MRS. LELAND HARRISON, Whose husband was recently appointed Minister to R Official Mourning Causes Society In All Circles To Car_lfel_llln_gigements Music and Lectures, Interspersed With Celebra- tions and Entertainments for Charity. Feature the Lenten Season Program. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. edict for 30 days of official moumlnf issued by the President from the White House last evening following the death of for- er President Taft, and the death of Asscciate Justice Sanford, caused many important social engagements to be canceled or postponed beyond the period of mourning, and diplomats, officials and important persons of resident society will pause in their social programs out o}”uspect to ‘Mr. Taft. Because Mr. and Mrs. Taft spent s0 many years in Washington their friends are legion. Associ- ate Justice and Mrs. S8anford, who have made Washington their home for a lesser time, also have a host of friends who mourn the unex- pected death of the associate justice. new dean of the diplomatic corps, Senor Tellez, is hastening back to Washington to assume his duties, and with him comes Senora de Tellez and their interesting family. While one feels deeply the changes in the diplomatic corps and other official bodies, nothing will better please Washington than to welcome Senor Tellez as the dean of the imposing body of diplomats. He has accom lished won- ders in his work between the United States and its; next-door neighbor, and, besides his official duties, he and Senora de Tellez have so entered into the life of the Capital that they have made hundreds of good friends here. HIS is the first time in many years that Mexico has occupied the head of the diplomatic list in the Capital, the late Senor Aspiroz having been the &st Mexican envoy with the rank of Ambassador. Benor Matios Romero was the first Mexican diplomat with that rank. and he was such a favorite that the event was being welcomed with reat excitement. While serving as Minister, it was arranged that e should present his credentials to President McKinley on January 3, 1899, at which time Gen. Powell Clayton would present his cre- dentials as United States Ambassador to President Diaz in Mexico City; but Senor Romero died unexpectedly on the morning of De- cember 30, 1898, and Washington went into mourning. Ambassador of Italy, Nobile Giacomo de Martino, and Nobil Donna Antoinette de Martino entertained 200 guests at a musi- cale and a dinner party of 35 or 40 last week, the Speaker of the House, Mr. Longworth; Senator and Mrs. Frederic C. Walcott of Connecticut, guests from the Lower House, the diplomatic corps and unofficial society dining before the musicale. This only shows that the 40 gray days of Lent are not so very gray, after all—at least not In Washington society. NOTHER formal dinner was at the Spanish embassy, when Senor Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell and Senora Dona Carmen de Padilla gave a dinner, with the Ambassador of Germany and Mme. von Prittwitz as their ranking guests and Senators, Representatives and diplomats in the company. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock gave her ball room for a musicale when three or four hundred guests attended, and so on during the first week of Lent 'I'HE legation of Czechoslovakia was a gay meeting place for diplo- mats, officials and others Friday afternoon, when the Minister and Mme, Veverka held a reception in honor of the eightieth birth- day anniversary of President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Ministers and lesser diplomats, with a large contingent of official and resident society, braved bad weather and attended. A wealth of lovely flowers, a gay tea table and happy faces brought just the proper atmosphere into the drawing rooms for “the grand old man” who brought freedom to his country. EIGHT!:ENTH century Georgetown has a very pleasant tang for those who love to peer into pleasant places—old houses and gardens—of the past; and this unusual privilege is to be given next month, when a two-day tour will be given for the benefit of St. John’s Church, Georgetown, an-onlder organization than St. John’s Church on Lafayette Square. Mrs. Jefferson Randolph Kean, with assistants like Mrs. Harry Randolph Talcott, is making arrangements, and for a modest sum, which goes to the church, many will be welcomed in homes where invitations are treasured treats. THIS week holds many interesting events not at all unadapted to Lent, however rigorously kept; and one of the pleasantest will be the entertainment in Wardman Park Theater, a bit of a place as dainty as & jewel box, but which accommodates several hundred (Continued on Second Page.) <« SOCIETY SECTION he Sunday Star, WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1930. Wife of Lieut. Paul Penido of the Brazilian Navy, tempo- rarily attached to the embassy in Washinw. Envoys Designated For U. S. Posts Abroad Soon to Take Up Duties Ambassador Willys, Assigned to Warsaw, and Minister Ratshesky, Due in Czecho- slovakia, Already Making pl.n'- ¥ A pleasant incident of last week was the presence in Washington of the new- ly named Minister to Czechoslovakia and Mrs. Abraham C. Rathesky and the expected arrival within a few days of their family, the former recently being confirmed as Ambassador to Warsaw. Mr. Willys is at present in Palm Beach with Mrs. Willys and the youngest and most important member of the family, the nine-week-old son of his elder Catherine Willys, who last Winter married Senor Juan Aguirre, a wealthy Argentinian who resides in Lon- don. The well known manufacturer of ‘Toledo, Ohio, !Yent almost a year abroad, and had leased a mansion near Regents Park, London, where the wed- ding took place, and later he had & country seat in Sussex. Although better known to the Ameri- | can public as a captain of industry who amassed a vast fortune and has been able to retire in his middie fifties, the Ambassador-designate has many sub- | stantial claims to fame. Both he and Mrs. Willys, who was Miss Isabel Van | Wie, are natives of the small town of | Canandaigua, N. Y., and they were mar- im—d when he was beginning life mod- estly in the bicycle business. He soon | started more extensive operations in “Elmxm, and later manufactured small arms, His name in Elmira is associated | with the improvement of Watkins Glen |and his generous aid in the beautifying | of its splendid scenic features. In To- | ledo, where he located some 20 years ago, he has been a generous patron of painting and music, and his private | gallery is to his home city what Walters gallery is to Baltimore and is said to | contain the finest sixteenth and seven- | teenth century canvases in Ohio. Mr. | and Mrs. Willys have a second daughter, Elizabeth, who will, no doubt, be a belle in the old Polish capital. | Another newly appointe¢ diplomat expected in Washington very soon is Mr. Gilchrist Baker Stockton of Jackson- ville. Fla., who will succeed Mr. Albert Henry Washburn of Massachusets, who | recently resigned the Austrian mission | to attend to his private interests. Mr. | Washburn was the first envoy sent to | the former dual empire, now a republic, {in 1922 and has served continuously since. He and Mrs. Washburn spent some days in Washington during the ast week. Mr. Stockton, like the Min- ter to Czechoslovakia, was an associate of the President in the food adminis- tration in this country and previously | he had been a member of the Belgian | relief commission. He was also of the first, group of Rhodes scholars. He was | a prosperous business man of the Flor- ic | capital when he served in the World War, and for his special qualifications in purchasing food supplies was made an aide of Ambassador Page in London and later to Admiral Sims. He and Mrs. Stockson are young, as diplomatic couples go, being in their opening forties. ‘Mrs. Stockton was Miss Mildred Church- well of Jacksonville and has been social and civic leader in all its activities. Orc}\c!—t; Leaders Guests Of Women's Press Club Mr. Frank Frost, president of the | National Symphony Orchestra, and Mr. Hans Kindler, conductor, will be the honor guests of the Women’s National Press Club at the weekly luncheon Tuesday at 1 o'clock at the American Association of University Women, 1634 1 strees Mr. and Mrs. John North Willys and | MME. WEIDEL, Wife of the commercial counselor of the Swedish legation, starting for a walk. Muris & Bwing Vice President Curtis Will Return to City Tomorrow Accompan;ed by Ml’!. Gann Was WCGk Efld Guest at Governor‘s Home in Indianapo“s. The Vice President, Mr. Charles Cur- tis, and his sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, will return to the Capital to- morrow from Indianapolis, where they |are week end guests of the Governor |of the State and Mrs. Harry S. Leslie, Mrs. Webster Knight, 2d, is expected to come to Washington shortly to visit her father, the Vice President. Mrs. Knight returned to her home in Provi- dence, R. I, yesterday after a short stay in New York. F. Brown, has been joined at the Ward- man Park Hotel by Mrs. Brown, who has returned from Orlando, Fla., where she has been visiting her mother, Mrs, George Hafer. Senator and Mrs. Royal 8. Copeland have as their guest at the Wardman Park Hotel Countess de Beaumont. Sen- ator and Mrs Copeland entertained at dinner last evening at the hotel in | honor of the countess, when their other |guests were Radio Commissioner Star- buck, the attache of the legation of Jugoslavia, Mr. Nikola Perazic; Col. and Mrs. Andrew J. White, Maj. and Mrs. Prank Kennedy, Mrs. Elonzo Tyner and Mr. and Mrs, Clarence. W. Countess de Beaumgnt, The Postmaster General, Mr. Walter | . Grosner. o= who has ben S}Jccial News of Interest. at Palm Beach, will leave today for New York. Miss Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Senator and Mrs. John Thomas, who makes her home with ber parents at the Wardman Park Hotel, will leave Friday for Philadelphia, where she will visit for several days. Representative and Mrs. Charles Un- derhill have with them in their apart- ment at the Hotel Roosevelt their son, Ensign Jesse J. Underhill, who will pass a week or more here before going to Pensacola, Fla. Representative Frederick M. Daven- port has returned from a brief stay at Old Point Comfort, Va. Representative and Mrs. E. M. Beers have with them at the Hotel Roose- velt their son, Mr. Cloyd Ewing Beers, who is passing his vacation from the Mercersburg Academy with his par- | ents. Representative and Mrs. Beers and their son will leave on Wednesday for their home at Mount Union, Pa., where they will be until March 18. Mrs. Beers will be the guest of honor Do K, SENORITA ANITA LEIVA, Daughter of the charge d’affaires of E! Salvador and Senora de Leiva., on her favorite walla Harris & Bving. Social Festivities Feature the Season Secretary and Mrs. Hurley Guests of Gen. and Mrs. Fuqu- — Other Notable Functions in Record. The Secretary of War and Mrs. Hurley will be the guests in whose honor Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Stephen O. Fuqua will entertain at dinner Saturday eve- ning, April 5. Mrs. Fulmer, wife of Representative Hampton P. Fulmer of South Caroe lina, and Mrs. Rankin, wife of Repre- sentative John E. Rankin of Mississippi, were joint hostesses at luncheon yes- terday at the Mayflower, entertaining in the Chinese room. Their guests were Mrs. Pat Harrison, Mrs. Edwin Broussard, Mrs. Hubert D. Stephe) Mrs. Carl Hayden, Mrs. Edward W. Pou, Mrs. John N. Garner, Mrs. Joseph W. Byrns, Mrs. Robert L. Doughton, Mrs. Charles R. Crisp, Mrs. Percy E. Quin, Mrs. Fred H. Dominick, Mrs. Herbert J. Drane, Mrs. Clarence F. Lea, Mrs. Frank Crowther, Mrs. Hoch, Mrs. James O'Connor, Mrs. Daniel A. Reed, Mrs. Charles L. Abernathy, Mrs. Willlam J. Driver, Mrs. John J. McSwain, Mrs. Randolph Perkins, Mrs. John N. Sandlin, Mrs. Philip D. Swing, | Mrs. Jacob L. Milligan, Mrs. William W. Arnold, Mrs. Gordon Browning, Mrs. Jeff Busby, Mrs. Allard H. Gasque, Mrs. Edgar Howard, Mrs. Heartsill Ragon, Mrs. Robert G. Simmons, Mrs. Pred- erick M. Evenporm, Mrs. Edward E. « ued on Second Page.) 8. | schedule Tales of Well Known Folk SENORA DE OLAYA SENORITA MARIA AND SENORITA LUCIA OLAYA, Wife and daughters of for- mer Minister and now President of Columbia, Harrs & Bwing Phota Ambassador of Mexico Ends Official Visit to H_ome Land Dean of Diplomatic Corps ‘qJASAgora de Tellez Returning to Capital —Embassies Entertain- ing—Special ‘The new dean of the diplomatic corps, the Ambassador of Mexico, Senor Don Manuel C. Tellez, and Senora de Tellez, are expected to ar- rive in Was| at the end of the week from Mexico OCity, where they went for the ceremonies of the inaugu- ration of President Ortiz Rubio. Senc dean Dr. mfl two- s two- Europe. Dr. Velarde held that office but a short time, having been the successor to Sir Esme Howard, former Ambassador of Great Britain, who retired February 19. ‘The first secretary of the Peruvian embassy, Senor J. Alvarez de Buena- vista, will be charge d’affaires until the arrival of the newly appointed Ambas- | sador, Senor de Freyre. The Italian Ambassador and Nobil| re Donna Antoinette de Martino - tained at dinner last evening at the embassy, when their guests were the Japanese Ambassador and Mme. De- buchi, the Minister of Czechoslovakia and Mme. Veverka, Senator and Mrs. James Couzens, the commissioner gen- eral of immigration and Mrs. Harry E. Hull, the vice chairman of the Tariff Commission and Mrs. Alfred P. Den- nis, the Commissioner of the District and Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro, Gen. and Mrs. Willlam Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Charles MacVeagh, the former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air and Mrs. Willlam P. MacCracken, jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Fleming, Mr. Stanley Hornbeck of the State Department, Prof. and Mrs. Graves, Prof. and Mrs. mbassy; B ence Wilson, Miss Anne Randolph, Maj. and Mrs. Samuel Burleigh Milton, the Italian consul in New York and Signora Angelone, the counselor of the Italian embassy, Count Machetti; the second counselor of the Italian embassy and Signora Catalani and the military at- tache, Lieut. Col. Marco Pennaroli. ‘The Minister of Portugal and Vis- countess d’Alte went to New York Fri- day and will be absent for 10 days or a fortnight. The Minister of Switserland and Mme. Peter will return to Wash n this afternoon from New York, where they have been for several days. wife of the Minister of Colombia, Dr. Enrique, and Presi- dent-elect of Colombia, will leave in a few days for the suburbs of Baltimore, Md., where she will remain until the Minister arrives from their native coun- try the first week in April. Senorita Lucia Olaya attends Notre Dame in Baltimore, and it is for this reason that Senora de Olaya will make her home near that city. Senorita Maria Olaya, who has been a student at Notre Dame, is now in the Capital with her mother, and her plans for continuing her studies have not been completed. The President-elect and his family will not leave the Capital permanently until the middle of July, which wiil their arrival in Colombia shortly before the inauguration of Dr. Olaya in August. The Minister of Greece and Mme. Simopoulos are expected back in the city next week. They are visiting in Aiken, S. C. The Minister joined Mme. Simopoulos in the South yesterday after spending s short time in New York. Mme. Simopoulos went to Afken th middle of last week. The Minister of *Albania, Mr. Faik Konitza, will return to the city the first of next week. He left Washin, yesterday to spend a few days Boston. | The Minister of Persia, Mirsa Davoud | gton | in ‘Will Hutchins, Frau| afte: News Notes. cent illness, returned to the legation Iast evening. ‘The Minister of the Netherlands, Mr. J. H. van Royen, will go to Brooklyn Friday to attend the opening of an ex- hibition of portraits and curiosities of Java and Ball. .He will return to .the Capital shortly after the exhibit. the guest of honor. The Chinese Minister and Mme. Wu are expected to make a short stay on the continent before returning to this country. They sailed a short time ago for The Hague, where the Minister will esent his country at the conference which opens Thursday and will con- tinue for a fortnight. Senora de will dinner Saturday even! the newly lrpfl&nud States Minister to Nicaragus and Mrs. Mat- thew E. Hanna, who will leave shortly for the former's new post. ‘The Minister of Jugoslavia, Dr. Leonide Pitamic, who has been in Cali- fornia for about a fortnight, is e to return to Washington in April. The Siamese Minister, Maj. Gen Prince Amoradat Kridakars, is spend- ing the week end in New York, and will return te the OCapital tomorrow Tnoon. ‘The counselor of the Spanish em- bassy, Senor do Amoedo, will return the first of the week from New York, where he is staying at the Hotel Ambassador. The financial counselor of the Ru- manian legation, M. George Boncesco, will return to Washington the latter part of the week from California, where (Continued on Second Page.) British Ambassador Plans to Sail for U. S. Wednesday ‘The newly appointed Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir Ronald Lindsay, and Lady Lindsay will sail from England Wednesday aboard the Aquitania and are expected to arrive in New York Tuesday, March 18. Sir Ronald will succeed Sir Esme Howard, who recently retired from the diplomatic service of his country and with Isabella Howard has arrived at their home in England. | University Women Honor Envoy and Mme. Veverka The Minister of Czechoslovakia and | Mme. Veverka will be the honor guests at the third diplomatic luncheon given by the American Association of Uni- versity Women at the club house Satur- fllg,u March 15, at 10 o'clock. Miss Ethel Summy will be the hostess. Mrs. | William Notz will introduce the speaker. | | Congressional Club To Receive on Tuesday ‘The Congressional Club has sent out cards for an evening at home at the club house, 2001 New Hamj ave- nue, Tuesday from 9 to 12 o'clock when there will be dancing. . Mrs. Dimock Cancels Afternoon At Home Khan Meftah, who spentys few days in Atlantic City ncup:?:tlz from a re- Mrs. Henry F. Dimock will not ob- :rvuharrqulumnmuwnmb- R ay.