Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1930, Page 41

SOCIETY SECTION he Swunday Star. OCTOBER Features for Taies of7Well KnO\yn 7Folkv_ : WASHINGTON, i). C., SUNDAY MORNING, 12, 1930 Part 3—16 Pages MRS. CHARLES P. GEORG D3 Wife of Maj. George, U. S. A., and their children, Anne and Curtis. Mrs. George is the daughter MRS. JOHN GLASCOCK BALDWIN Of New York, formerly Mrs. Margaret Aspinwall Allen of this city, who recent Harris ly réturned from Europe. & pving. Social Formulas of Capital Undergo Radical Changes With Passing of the Years Result Seen in Substitution of Modern Schedules for Old-Time Customs at Important the Ambassador experiences no inconvenience in living in hand- some quarters in a hotel. Mr. Pot- ter, who studied in the Foreign | Service School of the Department | of State, completed a vacation | visit to his home in St. Louis be- | fore sailing with the Ambassador. R | | Wnhile the S. 8. President Taft | | was at Honolulu Mrs. Hull and | | Miss Hill were entertained by Col. | and Mrs. Oliver at a dinner at Waikiki Beach, which was fol- lowed by a moonlight swimming party. Gen. Hull has a charming villa near the Governor’s palace in Manila, and his son will entér of Vice President C Clinedins' Photo in Chicago and in Indiana and Ohio, and will later join Mrs. | Hyde in their home in Trenton, Mo. The Secretary will not re- |turn to Washington until after | November 4. The Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Robert Patterson Lamont, is spending the week end in New York and is expected back | Washington tomorrow. i i | The Secretary of Labor, Mr. | James J. Davis, will leave tonight | for Pittsburgh, where he will re- main a short time. urtis. MRS. HUGH | Whose husband, Maj. Mit | here from Dayton, a house at MITCHELL, chell, has been transferred Ohio. They have Bethesda. Underwood Photo, law, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Kelly of Braddock, Pa. The Undersecretary of State and Mrs. Joseph Cotton are in | Beford Hill, N. Y. visiting the former’s family. They will return to Washington the first of the week. ; in The Aulstan?gécretary of State The counselor of the French embassy, M. Jules Henry, sailed last week for Europe, where he will remain for two months. The naval attache of the French embassy and Mme. Sable, who spent some time in Hawaii, were | honor guests at dinner while in | Honclulu of the French consul, Mr. Irving O. Pecker, who enter- Bishop Brent's school on the hills White House Functions. adfscent to Manila. Senator and Mrs. William H.| | King are en route to Salt Lake | City, where they were called by and Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr, who have | tained at the Royal Hawaiian been abroad since August, will| Hotel. sall Thursday for this country| Yellow and mauve flowers, with and are expected to return to the | matching candles in tri-leaf hold- BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. The graciousness of both the NCIENT historians of the President and Mrs. Hoover is A social life of the Capital SPOWn in their acceptance of the used to declare that all Invitation to become patrons for seasons looked alike, since UD€ annual Armistice Ball, to be there was a well defined official 8iven by the 1st Division Lieut. social formula which must be car- Jeff Feigl Post at the Hotel Astor, ried out. That may have been | New York, the night of Novem- true in hoop-skirt and peg-mp‘b" 1. i trouser days, but it certainly is| Mrs Hoover has been invited to not true now. Those were the|gpen the show of the fourth ex- days of salling vessels and stage- | nibjtion of the American Orchid | The Paris fashion decree for a| season of black and white is a| little late in arriving, for Mrs. James J. Davis, wife of the Secre- | tary of Labor, wore the combina- tion in an elegant black suede |coat and dress trimmed in white | fur as she assisted Mrs. Hcover at |the White House Thursday after- |noon when the delegates to the |Road Congress were guests and |again when she attended the re- | the death of the former’s nephew, | capita) shortly. after their ar- €IS, were used in the artistic dec- | Mr. Creighton G. King. They will | iia1 in New York. |oration of the long table where | not return to Washington until | were seated, with the host and his after November 4. special guests, Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, commandant of the four- teenth naval district, and Mrs. Stirling; Maj. Gen. Edwin B. Wi- nans, commander of the Hawaiian | Department; Capt. and Mrs. Amon oo | Bronson, Col. and Mrs. Lewellyn The Assistant Secretary of War Oliver, Dr. and Mrs. James R. |and Mrs. F. Trubee Davison will Judd, Dr. and Mrs. Gerrit Wilder, ride | The Assistant Secretary of the Mrs. William E. Borah was the | Treasury and Mrs. Seymour Low- | guest of Mr. Gilbert Davidson of | man left Washington Thursday | San Diego, Calif., who entertained | for Mr. Lowman’s home in El- | at luncheon yesterday at the May- | mira, N. Y. They will return to flower. Others in the party were the city in about 10 days. Mrs. Bernard Jones, aunt of the| host, and Mr. and Mrs. William Jeffries Chewning, jr. | | | coaches, and now visitors arrive from all around the world by fast steamers, and even by airplane, and social affairs are keeping apace. For instance, the variety of last week's social schedule, young as the season yet is, in- cluded a White House afternoon reception, with nearly 2,000 guests there to be greeted by the Presi- dent and Mrs. Hocver; a King's coronation anniversary reception, an evening reception of splendid proportions in the Pan-American Union Building, with the Presi- dent’s chief cabinet officer as host, and gay lights burning in many embassies and legations as din- ner parties were given for the delegates from the four corners of the world here to attend the International Road Congress. The International Road Con- gress and the presence of the Danae in port here each provoked a brilliant program of entertain- ment, invitations on board the ship being much sought, while the officers were feted by diplomats. Ambassadors and Ministers hur- ried back to the Capital to greet the delegates to the Road Con- gress from their respective coun- tries, and there was constant din- 4ng, sightseeing and visiting dur- Ing the last days of the week. While many are harping on the lack of a personal social secretary to Mrs. Hoover and a fear that it forebodes a dull season, this need not be. The program of official conduct and entertainment is quite plainly laid down, and the selection of a date when the Presi- dent and his lady must be off on the killing pace is the only fea- ture to be determined. It was November 9 when the receptions and dinners of state were an- nounced last year, with the first reception—that in. honor of the diplomatic corps—fixed for De- cember 5. Because of official mourning the program became Society at the Willard Hotel Oc- tober 16, and invited to the pre- view is the entire executive family from the Vice President, Mr. Cur- tis, and his official hostess, Mrs. |Gann, and their families on through the cabinet, diplomatic corps and at least that part of society which can afford orchids. Mrs. 8. Pierre du Pont of Delaware will again bring her $15,000 orchid | to Washington and others of her |collection worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mrs. Wil- liam K. du Pont, who, like Mrs. Pierre du Pont, is vice president of the society, also will bring a share of her collection, and on exhibi- | tion will be one growth for which {$10,000 has been offered and |promptly refused for a single {cumng. since the amputation |from the rare specimen, started more than 70 years ago, might weaken it. | With cables always busy, it is |easy to follow Washington's fa- | vorites all around the world, and when the Ambassador to Japan, Col. William Cameron Forbes, and the third secretary of the embassy in Tokio, Mr. Kennett Farrar Pot- ter, landed in Yokohama a short |time ago, the news was sent |around the globe. In their party | were Mrs. Hull and her son, John Bowler Hull, who are on their way ception at the Egyptian legation given to celebrate the anniversary of the accession of King Fouad to the throne. Reminded that this costume must have just come from Place Vendome, Rue de la Paix of the Champs Elysees, in the French capital, she remarked that she thought not, as she had worn the gown last season. That detracted none from its becom- |ingness, and she was greatly ad- mired. There is tremendous interest in | everything historic in Washing- ton, since plans are being made for the tercentenary of the founding of the Capital, and so- ciety will be on parade within a few days, when “The East Room,” |a pageant given in the large ball room at the Willard, will flaunt |the costumes and customs of the earliest history of the city. The! |east room at the White House, |where Abigail Adams dried her |laundry and where almost every | brilliant event of the times has| taken place—including the wed- | ding cf Miss Alice Roosevelt to Mr. Nicholas Longworth and two wed- dings in the Wilson administra- | tion, that of Miss Jessie Wilson to Mr. Francis B. Sayre and of Miss Eleanor Wilson to Mr. William G. McAdoo—will be reproduced with | striking similarity, and many of the costumes worn to famous balls MISS EMIL Guest of the German charg Mr. Davidson is well known in !return to Washington tomorrow |Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dillingham, IE DICKER, ¢ d'affaires.and Frau Kiep. Harris & Fwing the *minds of Washington girls, where scarcely 50 will be formally introduced. In the Capital debu- tantes of the past have tread a measure with Presidents,. and | many of them did on the night of Ethel Roosevelt’s coming-out ball in the White House, when the Chief Executive “led off” with his comely daughter. The late Presi- dent Taft, too, not only “stepped out” right gracefully with his daughter, Helen Taft, but he and Mrs. Taft often joined in the dance in the east room which fol- lowed each of their state recep- tions. Some of Washington’s gal- axy of girls will go to the first Autumn ball, that at Tuxedo Park Club House, October 25, this being the first very large and brilliant affair for them. In this city of politics and na- tional affairs it takes but little to start an interesting buzz of con- versation, and ever since the for- mer President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst to cpen their magnificent country house at Sands Point, Port Wash- ington, Long Island, society has wondered. Perhaps had not Mr. Hearst skipped a few administra- tions in his radio talk in referring to the recent incident in France and announcing that President Roosevelt would have resented such an action on the part of an- other country toward one of our citizens—well, perhaps there would not be so much surprise. Among those who have just re- turned to the Capital are Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammand, whose Tudcr Gothic stone house over- looks Rock Creek Park. There are lovely gardens about the house and many forest trees. In fact, Mr. Hammond hurries back early that he may hear the mocking birds .rollick from tree to tree, much to the astonishment of the scholarly Minister of Siam, who lives hard by. Mr. Hammond has his place protected the year around that these favorite song- | sters of his may not be. molested. banking circles in California and is the son of the vice chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Italy, San Diego. Mrs. Harry B. Hawes, wife of Senator Hawes of Missouri, went to Stratford, Va., to attend the sixteenth anniversary service of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s death. She will go from Virginia to their home in Missouri to remain until after November 4. Miss Eppes Hawes is visiting Mrs. James F. Curtis, on Long Is- land. Representative and Mrs. Clyde Kelly have as their guests the former’s brother and sister-in- General and Special News | From Diplomatic Circle | The Ambassador of Senor Don Manuel C. Tellez, left Washington yesterday for Jack- sonville, Fla.,, where he will ad- |dress the Woman’s College of Pan-American Institute cf Jack- |sonville. He will visit in Spring- field, Ill, before returning to Washington. | The Ambassador is accompanied ':g:ll;":,h‘:lfl:‘;x:{,’v‘i};?'tgo‘};‘zEand on other occasions will be | Governor General of the Phi]m~‘w°m' sl Dioul jby the secretary of the embassy, |Senor Don Carlos Barrera. Special Events of Interest The Ambassador of Cuba, Senor pines, Mr. Dwight F. Davis. With Mrs. Hull is Miss Hilda Ann Hill, | scenes will be the ball given in| |the east room by President and} Mrs. John Quincy Adams, and In Capital Officia]- Circ}-e }Don Orestes Ferrara, and Senora |de Ferrara will sail for America after a few days absence. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Ernest Lee Jahncke, is | spending the week end in New York visiting his son, Mr. Stan- ton Jahncke. Mrs. Jahncke is in New Or- leans, La., with her daughter, Miss Adele Jahncke, and will be in ‘Wasmngwn the first part of No- | vember. The assistant chief of the| Bureau of Aeronautics, Capt. John H. Towers, and Mrs. Towers, have | taken the house at 1400 Twenty- ninth street, home of Comdr. and Mrs. Charles C. Hartigan, who are now in Peking, China. Mexico, | livian delegates to the Interna- | |tional Road Congress. The Minister of Costa Rica, Senor Don Manuel Castro Que- |sada, left Washington yesterday [to spend a short time in Boston. |the former is attending the ses- | sion of the League of Nations, will |leave there at the close of the conference Wednesday and will | return to this country the first of next month. The Chinese Minister and Mme. | |Wu, who are at Geneva, where| |Dr. and Mrs. Frank L. Putnam, President and Mrs. David L. Craw- ford, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Lacor, Princess Margaret Ghika, Mrs. Helen Zur Helle, Mrs. Alfred Castle, Mrs. W. A. Clark, Mr. Vic- tor H. Lappe, consul of Belgium, and Mr. William Lewers. After dinner Mrs. Lacor (Mile. Odette Dartys) delighted the guests with a group of songs, and dancing in the ball room com- | pleted the very enjoyable evening. The naval attache of the Ital- ian embassy, Capt. Ncbile Luigi Notarbartolo dei Duchi di Villa- rosa, who has been in Europe since the early Summer, will re- turn to Washington Tuesday and will be again in residence at the Mayflower. Maj. Georges Thenault, assist- ant military attache of the French embassy, returned to the Capital Friday evening after spending a short while in New York. The staff of the Chinese lega- | tion entertained delegates from their home country who are at- tending the International Road Congress at a dinner given in the |Far East Chinese restaurant Fri- | day evening. The charge d'affaires of Co- lombia, Senor Don Jose M. Coro- nado, entertained at a luncheon at the Mayflower yesterday in honor of the delegates to the In- | ternational Road Congress who ircpresented Colombia. ‘ia-“;'lz‘}fitzrf mgfiil?:x“;y;fi‘;’g President Buchanan'’s reception to a month in the capital of Japan |the Prince of Wales in 1860 v{xll before going to Manila. present special interest, as Ml SS | e Mary Elizabeth MacArthur, niece Ambassador Forbes entertained ©f the new chief of staff, United | Mrs. Hull and her party at dinner, | States Army, will appear wearing when the cream of the American |the gown worn by her grand- |colony in Tokio attended. ‘ h | Forbes is greatly interested in the |sion. Starting with the “"hfi"' | Philippines, having served there|iShed east room in 1799, when, {for a year as Vice Governor and |Prior to his death, President Col, | mother on this auspicious occa- | The Vice President, Mr. Charles| Curtis, spent yesterday in New Al- | bany, Ind., where he delivered an address. He is en route to Topeka, Kans., today, where he will re- main until after the elections, | November 4. While in his native | State the Vice President will be ! the guest of his brother-in-law | | and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Rome Colvin. | |about October 21. and Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur have returned to Washington after an absence of about 10 days. They Mme. Peter will arrive in New were guests for a short time of|York today and expect to return the president of the University io the Capital Wednesday. of Wisconsin and Mrs. Glenn| = Frank at Madison, and later went| The Minister of Sweden, M. W. to the University of Rochester,|Bostrom, will arrive in Washing- where the Secretary dedicated the;"’m tomorrow and will be joined new buildings of liberal arts. Dr. by Mme. Bostrom at a later date. and Mrs. Wilbur later visited the| The Minister of Switzerland and confused and was protracted, but | for five years as Governor General, | Washington with his Lady Mal:ma: that had happened many nmeslduring which time he often visited |2nd Nellle Custis, her daughter, before. Mrs. Hoover is well|Japan. Now one of his major du- |Made a trip through the famous equipped with secretaries, both in | ties will be to complete the hand- |chamber, on down to a recent pe- the White House and the State|some new embassy being erected [Fiod, the panorama will be faith- Department. and will undoubt- [to replace the one destroyed by |fully 'Epfflduc{‘i_ edly make her announcements!'the earthquake and to get it ready| New York with its list of almost Xhen it is advisable. for occupancy, Beingsa bachelor, 300 debutantes excites no envy in ; rats “| The Minister of Persia, M. Mizra former’s brother-in-law and sis:. | Davoud'Khan Mettah, s spending The Secretary of State, Mr.| ter, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M"the day visiting in Annapolis, Md Henry L. Stimson, is spending the | | week end with Mrs. Stimson, at| their home, Highhold, on Long Is- land. | The Secretary 0( the Interior! Paist, in Wayne, Pa. b The Secretary of Agriculture,| The Minister of Belivia, Senor Mr. Arthur M. Hyde, left Wash- Don Eduardo Diez de Medina, en- ington Friday for a speaking tour | tertained at a luncheon Friday at in the Middle West.. He will stop |the legagon in honor of the Bo- M. George Rublee, petroleum The Minister of Haiti, Mr. Ul- |adviser in Colombia, will sail next rich Duvivier, will be jcined the‘week for his home country after |end of next week by Mme. Du- }ncmpletlng his stay as a member vivier. |of the Road Congress. QSociety Buds Devoting Time "To Plans for Debut Parties 0 With the date rapidly ap-|general. It has become the cus- proaching for the budding of the|tom in the last few years for the first of Washington’s 1930 “gar-| maids who are to make formal |1and of ‘rosebuds,” the debutante | | is directing her thoughts to com- | pleting plans for her debut party, as well as her socialicalendar in bows to entertain her sister buds at luncheon some time preceding her bowing party, thus giving the " (Continued on Page 2, Column |