Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1930, Page 18

SOCIETY. SOCIETY Chief Executive Will Be Accompanied by First Lady of the Land to D. A.R. Meeting Tonight. RS. HOOVER will accompany the President to the evening session of the Congress of the National Society of DauYhters of the American Revolution in- the new Constitution Hall recently completed. ‘This morning Mrs. Hoover received a small. group of Girl Scouts from Massachusetts. The Vice President, Mr. Curtis, will be the guest in whose honor the Secre- tary of Agriculture and Mrs. Hyde will entertain a company of 40 at dinner this evening in the Chinese room of the Mayflower. Dinner Party of Notables at Italian Embassy Quite Informal. ‘The Italian Ambassador and Nobil Donna Antoinette de Martino were hosts to a small company at dinner, when the company included the Ambassador of France and Mme. Claudel, the Min- ister of Bulgaria and Mme. Radeff, Count and Countess de Bonvouloir of New York, Mrs. Russell Codman of Bas- ton, Senorita Rosa Padilla, Baron Dobl- hoff, Conte Roncalli di Montorio and Cav Adriano Monaco. The Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur were hosts to a company of about 138 last evening when thev gave a buffet supper fol- lowed by motion pictures in the audi- torium of the Interlor Department. ‘The pictures were of Indiana and other activities under the supervision of the Interior Department. Senator and Mrs. Charles S. Deneen of Illinois, accompanied by their daugh- ter, Miss Bina Day Deneen, returned this morning to their Washington home, 1920 Twenty-third street. Thursday afternoon of this_week, from 4:30 to 6:30 o'clock, Mrs. Deneen will entertain at tea at her home for the delegates to the D. A. R. Congress from Illinois Mrs. Guy Despard Goff and Mrs. Henry D. Hatfield, wives of the Senators from West Virginia, and Mrs, William G. Conley, wife of the governor of that State, will be the guests in whose honor Mrs. Carl G. Bachmann, Mrs. Frank L. Bowman, Mrs. John Solverton, Mrs. Hugh Ike Shott and Mrs. Joe L. Smith, wives of Representatives from West Virginia, will entertain at luncheon to- morrow. Representative and Mrs. T. J. B. Rob- inson entertained at supper last eve- ning in their apartment at the Hotel Roosevelt when their guests were Mrs. A. B. Lovejoy, Mrs. M. J. O'Keefe, Mrs. Ben Hesser, Mrs. A. E. Rumsey and Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Cass, all of Water- loo, Iowa. Mrs. Lovejoy, Mrs. O'Keafe, Mrs. Hesser, Mrs. Rumsey and Mrs. Cass are in Washington to attend the D. A. R. Congress. Representative and Mrs. Charles L. Abernethy of North Carolina have with them as their guest over the Easter holidays their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Abernethy, who has come on to serve as assistant organist at the D. A. R. Congress, officiating at the new me- «morial organ in Constitution Hall. | * Mrs. Abernethy, senior, has issued | eards for a luncheon at the Raleigh Ho- tel Easter Monday. Maj. and Mrs. Parker W. West will | entertain at dinner the evening of Apri) 23 for Gen. and Mrs. Guy Henry and on the evening of April 24 for the new | Commissioner of the District and Mrs. Crosby. Rear Admiral and Mrs. Andrew T. Long are at the Ritz Carlton in New York, preparatory to sailing on Wednes- day for Europe. Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins has returned %0 her apartment in the Mayflower from Arizona, where she has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. Arthur Lee, on her ranch there. Mr. and Mrs. B. Sumner Welles have | returned to their estate, Oxon Hill on the Potomac, after a short stay in New York at the Hotel Ambassador. Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman || ‘were hosts to a company of 36 at a midday breakfast entertaining at the National Woman’s Country Club for Mr. and Mrs. Julian Jones and their daughter, Miss Eveline Jones, and Mrs. ‘Warrington Cottman and her daughter, | Miss Claire Cottman, all of Baltimore. | Miss Cottman was a debutante of the | past season. Mrs. Elonzo Tyner and Miss Peggy Tyner are now at the St. Regis in New | York and wil sail within a week to spend the Summer in England. Count Szechenyi to Open Exhibit Of Hungarian Artists. | Count Ladislaus Szechenyi, Minister from Hi , will open an exhibition of paintings, sculpture and works of applied arts by cotemporary Hun- garian artists at the National Gallery on April 23. . Admission to the reception, which marks the formal opening of the exhi- bition, will be by invitation. President and Mrs. Hoover, members of the Hoover cabinet, the diplomatic corps, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives and leaders in the social world have been invited to attend. The exhibition, which has been assembled by the Hungarian National Council of Fine Arts and shown under the auspices of the American Federation | of Arts and the American-Hungarian W. B. Moses & Sons F Street at Eleventh Read All the T2 New Books In @ Our Circulat- ing Library Pirst Floor Easter Special on Slip Covers Tailored to fit ¢ any size chair. This week only 4,95 3-Pc. Living Room Suites, $14.95 Cushions, $1.00 each terns to select trom. Materials 01 d rki hi ranteed. i R, s Mlled at these very low prices. New Plant, 709 G Street N.W. Telephone Metropolitan 8916 Foundation, will remain during the month of May in Washington and in the Fall will be displayed in New York. Patrons of the Hungarian arts exhi bition include, besides Count Szechenyi, Count Stephen Bethlen, prime minister of Hungary; Mr. J. Butler Wright, Min- ister from the United States to Hun- gary; Mr Lewis Walko, minister for foreign affairs of Hungary; Count Kuno Klebelsberg, Hungarian minister of education; Dr. Eugene Sipocsz, lord mayor of Budapest; Mrs. J. Butler Wright, Countess Ladislaus Szechenyi, Countess Antal Sigray and Countess Raphael Zichy. Mrs. Henry T. Burgin, wife of Lieut. Col. Burgin, has gone to California, where she will visit her mother, Mrs. Richard Derby, at the latter’s home in San Francisco. Mrs. Burgin will join Col. Burgin in their apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel in a month or six | | weeks. Capt. and Mrs. G. H. Johnson of Washington entertained a party of five at the dinner dance at Carvel Hall preceding the Easter hop at the United States Naval Academy on Saturday evening. Mrs. P. Lee Phillips entertained at dinner last evening at the Duck Inn, on the upper Alexandria road, Virginia. Mrs. Quin, wife of Representative | Percy E. Quin, will give a reception at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon in the Con- gressional Club, at 2001 New Hampshire avenue, for the national officers of the National Society of the Children of the American Revolution, of which Mrs Quin is national president. Mrs. Ed- ward Everett Gann, sister of Vice Presi- dent Curtis, will preside at the tea table, and Mrs. Quin will be assisted by Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, presi- dent general ot the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. Among others who will alternate at the tea table will be Mrs. Joseph Byrnes, Mrs. Ladlow Buel and Mrs. Henry Cook, and among others assisting dur- ing the afternoon will be Mrs. John E. Rankin, Mrs. Jefferson Busby, Mrs. ‘William Whittington, Mrs. J. W. Collier and the Misses Harrison. In addition, there will be Mrs. Quin's persoaal pages, Miss Nancy Berry, Miss Barbara H. Fries, Miss Cornelia Keeton and Miss Nina E. Markette. Mrs. Stanley P. Woodard of New York, who is in Washington at the May- flower sponsoring the peace ball to be given at the hotel on May 2, will enter- tain at tea this afternoon in the palm court, when the debutantes and young society girls of Washington will be in- vited to meet Ward Fox of New York and London, the interpretive dancer. Mrs. Charles O'Day entertained at luncheon Friday in compliment to Mrs. Woodard, who is chairman of the peace Col. and Mrs. Edward B. Clark will leave Washington Wednesday for Phila- delphia and New York preparatory to sailing Friday on the Lapland for Eu- rope. They will have with them their niece, Mrs. Frank Shaw Clark of Bos- ton, whose husband will join them in June. They will then go to Berlin, Ger- many, where Mr, Frank S. Clark will rcelag an address before the Engineers’ ub. ‘The Minister of Czechoslovakia and Mme. Veverka were the guests of honor at the third diplomatic luncheon given by the American Association of Univer- sity Women Saturday at,the club house. 1634 I street. Other guests from the legation included Dr. Jan Skalicky. counselor of the legation, and Mme. Skalicky, Dr. Josef Nemecek and Dr. Jan Papanck. Miss Ethel Summy was hostess. Mrs. William Notz introduced the Minister, who spoke on “Czechoslovakia; Her History and Problems.” He paid high | Rev. Clyde Brown at the Pinckney Me- | THE EVENiNG STAR, WASHINGION, D. C, MUNDAY, APRIL 14, 8 of the General e ‘Women's Clubs; Mrs. tion Lewls, president of the Washin; Club, and Mrs. Merritt Chance, presi- dent of the Women's City Club. They will be guests of honor at the speakers’ table, for important function of Easter Monday, which will be held at | [ 12 o'clock at the Willard Hotel, as the MISS MARTHA VAN RENSSELAER Director home economics, Cornell Uni- versity, and assistant to director of the White House conference. Miss Florence E. Ward gave a tea for her yesterday at the National Woman’s Country Club. —Harris & Ewing Photo. tribute to President Masaryk, “the President philosopher.” Others assisting were Mrs. Frederick ‘W. Crocker, Mrs. H. F. Cameron, Miss Anna Pearl Cooper, Dr. Esther Caukin, Miss Elizabeth Carhart, Mrs. Albert Barrows, Mrs. Bertram D. Hulen, Miss Martha MacLear, Mrs. James K. Mc- Clintock, Mrs. Maris Proffitt, Miss Belle Rankin, Mrs. David Robertson, Mrs. George B. Woods and Mrs. Otto Verhoff Mr. and Mrs. George Lafayette Wood | of this city announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Elinor Field Wood, Saturday night at 7 o'clock to Mr. John Marshall Howard, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Willilam E. Howard of Hyatts- ville, Md. The ceremony was performed in the presence of the immediate fam- ilies of the bride and bridegroom by morial CRurch at Hyattsville. Miss Florence E. Ward was hostess to a large company at tea yesterday | afternoon, entertaining at the National | Woman's Country Club in compljment to Miss Martha Van Rensselaer, di- rector of the College of Home Econom- | ics of Cornell University and assistant to the director of the White House con- ference, who in Washington for several months, Presidents of onal women’s or- | ganizations with headquarters in Wash- ington, who have accepted the invita- tion to serve as patronesses for the authors’ breakfast of the National | League of American Pen Women, are Mrs. Porter H. Dale, president of the Congressional Club; Mrs. Karl Fenning, president of the American As<o-iation | of University Women; Mrs. John F. IMPORTE! INE SLIP COVERS 3-piece Set— 5 separate cush- 50 ions. Custom o made to order — f b de —_— Order now. McDEVITT 1202GSt.N.W. District 3211 3 Floors Elevator Servic A Large New Assortment of Antique Hooked Rugs Quaint designs and rich colorings of old New England days, and patterns of more recent origin. These artistic handmade rugs are much in vogue again. Designs for the live ing room, hall, bed room, porch and sun room. Very moderately priced— $6—S875_5]150_515_ 17— $20—S30 DuLIN @ MARTIN Connedticut Ave, anad l” PARKING SERVICE—Connecticut Ave. Entrance WASHINGTON G JuLws GARFINCKEL& Co. Tiny Tots’ Wear In Our New Spring Showings IS as exciting and as varied as are our fash- ions for grown-ups . . . the most adorable things that you ever did see . . . dainty enough to please the most particular mothers . . . practical enough to supply the most active tots in Washington. ALL those little things on the Spring list of # small boys, girls and infants are here—an unusual selection at very moderate prices. Coats Dresses Boys® Suits Nursery F umv's’n'r;g: HOURS: 8:45 AM. Romgpers Hats to 6 P.M. DAILY rARIS Sweaters Caps Gifts Complete Layettes opening event in_the biennial conven- on of ‘Women. This annual authors’ breakfast of the league holds a recognized place as one of the leading social occurrences of the Spring season in Washington, attracting much atten- tion ‘not only from the Pen Women but hiso from representative members of Wi gton soclety not affliated with the organization but keenly inter- ested in the creative arts for which th- Jeague stands. Miss Jessie Dell, Civil Service com- missioner, will be the guest of Mre Nellie S. Fealey, who will have with her also Mrs. A. P. Woods, Mrs. Harriet Davis and Mrs. Mirlam Berryhill. Among those arranging tables is Mrs E. Richard Gasch, past president of the District branch, who will have with her Mrs. Walter Miles, Mrs. Robert Sherril and the latter’s guests, Mrs. George W. Quirk and Miss John Frances Steel also Miss Myrta Ethel Cawood, Miss Katharine Jacobs, Miss Isabel Story. Miss Agnes Winn and Miss Susie White McGowan. Reservations for the breakfast are being made through Mrs. Philip Lee Phillips at the Willard Socia: Bureau. Mrs. James Brady Mitchell has gone | to New York, where she is spending a few days at the Weylin. Mrs, John L. Proctor was a dinner hostess Saturday evening in the palm court of the Mayflower, having 12 in - — A TR S R Y I . Mrs. Proctor will also en- tertain at dinner again on April 28 at the hotel for her aunt, Miss Emily Dut- ton Proctor, of Proctor, Vt. Cards for Embrey-Birgfeld ‘Wedding April 28 Issued. Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Birgfeld have issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter Janet Montgomery to Mr. Everett Clayton Embrey on the eve- ning of April 28, 1930, at 8 o'clock in St. Stephen’s and the Incarnation . her Church. Mr. George Marshall entertained a large party at the Club Chantecler sup- per dance on Saturday evening. Arrangements for the Russian Gala Concert, under the auspices of the Grand Duke Alexandria of Russi, which were disrupted last month be- cause of the official period of mourning for President Taft, have again been completed. The concert will be given April 26 at Memorial Continental Hall for the benefit of St. Alexander’s Rus- sian Orthodox Church. Mme. N. L. Rimsky-Korsakoff an- nounced today that many of those whe had reserved boxes at the planned con- cert of last month have continued then reservations for the affair of April 26. Artists famous for their presentation of Russian classics and folk songs will be heard on the program, which is un- der the direction of Lieut. Basil P. Toutorsky. The artists includ® Eman- uel Zetlin, professor of violin at Wash- 1930. ington College of Music; Michael Shvetz, formerly basso at Russian Imperiel Theater; Perle Barti, operatic soprano and soloist to H. I. M. Victoria. 14, Queen of Spain, and Nicolas Kopeikine, famous Russian pianist. The boxholders include the French Ambassador and Mme, Paul Claudel, the Mexican Ambassador and Senora Man- Mrs. Ro) land, Senator and Mrs. les L. Mc- Nary, Representative and Mrs. So! Bloom, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Ze Barney Phillips, chapls of the United States (Continued on_Third Page.) THE COLLIER INN, Ine. Columbla Rd. at 18th Bt. N.W. Tm' our delicious Chicken Salad for your next Home Party— £lso Sandwiches, Ice Cream and Pastries—a complete and satisfying catering service—sure to please you. 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