Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1930, Page 53

SUCIELY SECTION he Sunday Star. WASHING TON, D. C., _SUNDAY MISS KATRINA McCORMICK, ‘Whose mother, Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick, will pre- sent her at a lowed by a ball December 29. ~—Underwood Photo. MISS GERTRUDE BANCROFT, Niece and guest for the season of the Attorney General and Mrs. Mitchell. Official Social Season for the Capital Will Open With Important Functions In Calendar of White House Events President and Mrs. Hoover to Entertain Members of Cabinet at Dinner and Announce Reception in Honor of Dip]omatic Corps—Special Festivities Included in General Program. Past and in pmspect. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. The official social season opens this ‘week with two important events on the ealendar of state events, the President and Mrs. Hoover entertaining the mem- bers of the cabinet and their ladies at dinner Tuesday evening and holding a brilliant reception at the White House Thursday night in honor of the diplo- matic corps. Invited to meet the dip- Jomats are many persons of society both in and out of Washington and many new members of the corps to be greeted for the first time by the Presi- | dent and Mrs. Hoover. In the social scheme carried out last week and that planned for this week ‘Washington soclety comes in close touch with the official world and the | Capital gains its full meed of tnte:'ést‘ end brilliancy. The First Lady of the Land attended the Navy League ball, Sccompanied by her younger son, Mr. Al- lan Hoover, thus coming in contact with hundreds of men and women of all branches of the military and society in general, and again, later in the week, | she opened “doll week” at the Thrfll! Bhop on E street, which carries on for the benefit of child welfare. It is wonderful how doll-babies lnd‘ $oys make the whole of childhood akin | snd especially as Christmas season | Dears, and it is wonderful in what close | touch Mrs. Hoover seemed to come to the lesser life of Washington when she Sook the three simple little dolls, such #s any child of less fortunate state might own, and with the simplest cere- mony possible gave them to the shop 86 a beautiful example of what others | can do to bring happiness. And s0 sweet Peggy Ann, clever little | Herbert 3d, known in the family as Peter, and wee Joan, the tiniest baby that has been in the White House in many years, stand in effigy in the little show window of the Thrift Shop, where they are seen by thousands who pass that way. 8o rapidly has this shop grown that & whole building is required to house the bountiful gifts, where the poor and the rich may-go as customers, and| where, from an old Paisley shawl and | # lack-luster French gilt mantel set that once graced a seemly drawing goom, on down to serviceable clothes, all sorts of small gifts and trinkets as Christmas The President and Mrs. Hoover en- tertained at the White House the great planist and Polish statesman, Paderew- ski, and it was delightful to hear the potes from the plano placed in the sit- ting room of his suite float through the lon. There are several plancs second floor of the White House, artist need not lack a place to . In the Roosevelt administra- Paderewski was invited to play in and just before his ar- the cvunc & messenger ar- oarrying the chair upon which he |ver will appear in public, ~Underwood Photo. ple one not much above the kitchen variety, was the only touch of tempera- mentality the artist showed. He could use no other seat at the piano, and this chair formed part of his luggage wher- ever he went. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt asked several hundred guests to hear him play, and the musicale was one of the mest brilliant affairs of that ‘Winter. Again the President and Mrs. Hoo- when on Saturday’ afteroon, December 6, they attend a foot ball game between the Coast Guard and the Marine Corps at Griffith Stadium, the entire proceeds from the game to go to the unem- ployed. It is not unusual for the Presi- dent and his lady and the entire cabinet to attend a ball game in the great sta- dium, but this time the whole of Wash- ington soclety—maybe muffled in furs and blankets—will meet to help out the helpless. While larger crowds by some thousands have witnsessed the far- famed Army-Navy games of past years, the company to watch and cheer the Marines and Coast Guards next Satur- day will be concretely brilliant. No phase of Washington life is more interecting or more complicated than that of calling, and the whole plan of | first calls elsewhere is turned topsy- turvy in the Capital, and those here longest stay at home to permit the newcomer to be welcomed. To be sure this unique arrangement i only carried out in the congressional set, but that is quite enough to confuse one. Mrs. Rob- ert Lansing, who has spent a longer period in official life than almost any other woman in soclety, and Miss Helen Cannon, who for long reigned over her Speaker father's household, never quibbled over these matters. There are some women in official society today, also, who bury questions which should be settled by the new minister of proto- col, and make the way easy, especially for the foreign representatives in the Capital. These cabinet days at home may not be mistaken as open house days, where every one rushes in who has a curiosity to appease, but are for the purpose of social exchange and to give soclety an opportunity to pay its obligations, but nothing could so chill political and so- clal ardor as to keep a day at home and have a mere handful of callers, as was sometimes the case in the Monroe and some other administrations, in the early history of Washington. Wednesday will be observed by the cabinet members’ wives for the first time this season, and, though Congress faces a short session, the city is already full of women whose duty it is to call. Mrs. Edward Everett Gann will keep Wednesday afternoon for her first at home of the season, receiving for her brother, Vice President Curtis. Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall will be with Mrs. Gann, and thus recall to the minds of hundreds the gracious reign of that lady during the years her late husband t while playing. The chair, a sim- served as Vice President. Friday afternoon from 3 to § o'clock will mark the opening of the Congres- sional Club when the former presidents now in Washington, Mrs. Lenroot and Mrs. Hadley, will be honor guests. Mrs. Porter H. Dale, president, and members of the Hostess Committee, of which Mrs. Homer Hoch is chairman, will re- ceive and the entire Hostess Committee, a large one, will assist. Caring for the hospitality of the afternoon will be Mrs. Charles S. Deneen, Mrs. Charles W. Waterman, Mrs. Carter Glass, Mrs. Morris Sheppard, Mrs. Frederick W.| Magrady, Mrs. Richard Yates, Mrs.| Charles A. Eaton, Mrs, Fletcher Hale, Mrs. James H. McLafferty, Mrs. Wallace H. White, Mrs. Nathaniel B. Dial, Mrs. Bertrand H. Sneli, Mrs. Willlam E Evans, Mrs. Franklin W. Fort, Mrs. Harry C. Ransley, Mrs. Frederick M. Davenport, Mrs. L. J. Dickinson, Mrs.| Milton C. Garber, Mrs. Schuyler Otis Bland, Mrs. Charles C. Kearns, Mrs. Charles A. Wolverton and Mrs. C. C. McChord. Almost as auspicious as the cabinet days at home is Mrs. Lawrence Town- send’s morning musicales with the ini- tial program to be given Wednesday at the Mayflower, when the lovely young French singer, Mme. Clare Claibert, will be the leading artist, with Richard Crooks, American tenor, also on the program. The concert will be fol- lowed by a long list of luncheon parties Jn the presidential dining room with Mrs. Townsend as hostess to the artists. ‘The first of the dances of the Wash- ington Bachelors’ cotillons will be given Monday evening, December 8, in the Mayflower. Mme. Debuchi, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, will head the re- celving line and Mr. George H. Calvert, jr., vice president of the organization, wili make the introduction. Mme. De- buchi will be assisted by Mrs. Ernest Lee Jahncke, wife of the Assistant Sec- retary of the Navy, and Mme. Lessi- noff. Miss Adele Townsend Jahncke will dance the first figures with Col. Camp- bell Hodges, aid to the President, who will lead, and Brig. Gen. William E. Horton, president, will direct the figures. Mrs!HydeiWill BaatHoms TO Callerl Wedneuday Mrs. Hyde will be at home Wednes- day, December 3, from 4 to 6:30 o'clock. Presiding at the tea table will be Mrs. Ernest Lee Jahncke, Mrs. Joel T. Boone, Mrs. Samuel R. McKelvie and Mrs. Prank H. Hoffman. She also will have assisting her Mrs. Homer Hoch, Mrs. Stanley Reed, Mrs. Everett Sanders, Mrs. Charles Alger and Mrs. Willlam W. Bagley. Ladies of tl\e. Senate To Meet at Luncheon ‘The ladies of the Senate will resume their luncheons on Tuesday, December 9. tea December 13, fol- MORNING, MISS ROSALIND DEAKYNE, Daughter of Col. and Mrs. Herbert Deakyne, whose debut party will be a tea dance at the Officers’ Club, Army War College, December 27. —Bachrach Photo. President and Mrs. Hoover Guests at Social Functions Opcn Season by Dmmg Wlth Vice President. Sencs of Notable Entertamments Scheduled in Fashion Circle. President and Mrs. Hoover will start their round of dinner parties which are given annually by members of the offi- cial family when they will dine with the Vice President, Mr. Curtis, and his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ecdward Everett Gann, Tuesday eve- ning, December 9. The Secretary of State and Mrs. Stimson and the other members of the cabinet will be hosts to the Chief Executive and Mrs. Hoover after the first of January. The retiring Secretary of Labor and Mrs. James J. Davis, who will move from the cabinet circle to the senatorial circle when the Congress convenes to- morrow, were hosts at dinner last eve- ning, entertaining in compliment to the Vice President, Mr. Charles Curtis. Others in the company were Senator and Mrs. Guy Despard Goff, Represent- ative and Mrs. J. Clyde Kelley, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, brother-in- law and sister of the Vice President; Judge and Mrs. Ralph Donges of Cam- den, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cassedy of Baltimore, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Ham- iton Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Stephen Corby and Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose. Mrs. McNary, wife of Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, entertained & small company at luncheon yesterday at the Willard. Representative and Mrs. Addison T. Smith of Idaho entertained at dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel Thursday eve- ning when their guests included their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter 8. Smith of Clarendon, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. George B. Haddock of Idaho, Mrs. Clem C. Gurley of Durham, N C., and Mr. 8. P. Adams, jr., of Alexandria, Va. ‘The United States Minister to Uru- guay and Mrs. J. Butler Wright were entertained at dinner Friday evening by Mr. and Mrs. William V. Hodges, who are staying at the Willard during their (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) NOVEMBER 30, 1930. Capital’s Social Highlights MISS GEORGETTE YERBY, Whose mother, Mrs. Bridges, wife of Maj. Gen. Charles H. Bridges, will present her at a tea December 8. ~Underwood Photo. Mrs. Gann to Observe Formal At Home" Day | Wednesday This Week| Cabinet Ladies Dates for Receiving Guests for the Information of Society in Capital, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, sister and official hostess for the Vice Presi- | dent, Mr. Charles Curtis, will observe her formal day at home Wednesday, in her apartment in the Mayflower. Mrs, Gann recelves informally almost every Wednesday, but this will be the first of her formal days at home for this season, Mrs. Stimson, wife of the Secretary of State, will be at home Wednesday afternoon in her charming place, Woodley, on Cathedral avenue, for the first time this season. She will again receive on Wednesday afternoon, De- cember 10, and will not be at hcme again this year, resuming her Wednes- day afternoon receptions after the New Year, ‘The wives of the other cabinet mem- bers who are in Washington will follow the plans of Mrs. Stimson, and those who will be at home Wednesday will be Mrs. Hurley, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Wilbur and Mrs. Hyde. The Secretaries of the Treasury, Commerce and Labor will not be rep- resented in this first day at home. The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Mellon, has no hostess since the marriage of his daughter; Mrs, Lamont, wife of the Secretary of Commerce, is on the high seas, returning from Europe, and the new Secretary of Labor, Mr. Doak, will probably not have been sworn in by Wednesday. Mrs. David 8. Ingalls, wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, will be at home Friday from 4:30 until 6:30 o'clock. Mrs. Henry W. Fitch and Mrs. Cres- well Garlington will be at home Mon- day afternoons in December, in their home at 2144 Wyoming avenue. We’dding Engagemenu Grace Society Calendar Capt. E. D. Stanley (8.C), U. 8. N, and Mrs. Stanley of Lansdowne, Pa., announce the engagement of their daughter, Katherine, to Lieut. Frank Virden, U. 8. N, son of Mr. Walter Virden and the late Mrs. Virden of Cynthia, Miss. Miss Stanley graduates from Wellesley College in June and the wedding is planned for the August following. Lieut. Virden was graduated from the Naval Academy with the class of 1927 and is now attached to the U. 8. 8. J. Fred ‘Talbott. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Graves Adams announce the engagement of their daughter, Nancy James, to Mr. Walter Scott Watson. The wedding will take plate in the early Spring. Mr. and Mrs. D. Fulton Harris an- nounce the engagement of their daugh- ter Grace to Mr. Joseph Bradley Col- burn of New York, son of Mr. and Mrs. Announce | to Washindtnn The Secretary of State and Mrs. | Stimson are expected to return today from their Long Island home, where they spent Thanksgiving. The Postmaster General and Mrs. Walter F. Brown will return tomorrow from Atlantic City, where they spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. Brown's mother, Mrs. George Hafer. ‘The Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur will return today from Wayne, Pa., where they have been with the Secretary’s brother- in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Fred- erick Paist, for the holiday. The Secretary of Commerce, Mr. La- | mont, and his daughter, Miss Gertrude Lamont, will go to New York the end of the week to meet Mrs. Lamont on her arrival from Europe. The Secre- tary and Miss Lamont will return to- morrow from New York, where they spent the holiday with the Secretary's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Belknap. ‘The Assistant Secretary of War and Mrs. Frederick H. Payne have had with them for Thanksgiving and the week end their son and daughter, Mr. Grover- man B. Payne and Miss Carolyn Payne. Miss Payne will return today to her studies at Vassar College and Mr. Payne will leave today for Charlottesville, to resume his studies at the University of Virginia. Assistant Postmaster General W. Irv- ing Glover leaves today for Portland, Ore., to attend the Governors' Con- ference of the Western States on Aero- nautics and the Northwestern Cham- ber of Commerce Conference on Trans- portation. He will be absent from ‘Washington for two weeks. The Assistant Secretary of Com- merce and Mrs. Julius Klein, who have been in Cairo and Luxor during the week, sailed yesterday from Alexandria for Trieste and will go at once to Paris to remain a week. They will sail from Cherbourg aboard the Leviathan Tues- day, December 16, and are expected to return to Washington December 23. The new assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Mr. C. Grant Isaacs, has taken an apartment at 1725 H street for the Winter. Mr. Isaacs has many friends in Washington, where he has lived during previous station in the Commerce Department, but has been abroad for some time in the foreign service of the Commerce De- partment. — i Senator and Mrs. Hiram Bingham | had with them for Thanksgiving their | son, Mr. Brewster Bingham, who will| return to his studles at Ysle Univer- sify today. Senator Samuel M. Shorfridge of William icolb\lm of this city. Secretary and Mrs. Stimson Expected in Capital Today iWere at Long Island Home for Thanhdivm( Period—Special Notes Grouped Relhtin( Official Family. and is in residence at the Mayflower this season. Senator and Mrs. George H. Moses have arrived in Washington from their home in Concord, N. H,, and are at the Willard. Senator Wesley Jones and Mrs. Jones of Washington State, Representative Earl C. Michener and Mrs. Michener of Adrian, Mich, Representative Addison T. Smith and Mrs. Smith of Idaho, Representative Charles L. Gifford and Mrs. Gifford of Massachusetts, Repre- sentative Charles O'Connor and Mrs. O’Connor of Oklahoma and Represen- tative J. A. Garber and Mrs. Garber of Virginia have taken suites at the Hotel Roosevelt for the coming season. Senator Charles 8. Deneen is expected to arrive this afternoon from his home in Chicago. Mrs. Deneen and their daughter, Miss Bina Day Deneen, are not expected until later, having been detained in Chicago by the fllness of Mrs. Deneen. Senator and Mrs. Felix Herbert of West Warwick, R. I, and their two daughters will return to Washington tomorrow and open their apartment at Wardman Park Hotel for the Winter. Representative Anthony J. Griffin of New York City, will arrive in Washing- ton today and will take possession of his apartment at Wardman Park Hotel, which he has leased for the Winter, The major general commandant of the Marine Corps and Mrs. Ben H. Fuller will be at home on the second, third and last Mnndly. in December. Representative-clect and Mrs. Bd- ward W. Goss are at the Mayflower, where Mr. Goss will remain through the session of Congress. Mrs. Goss will re-~ turn to her home in Waterbury, Conn., the middle of the week and will be & frequent visitor here during the Win- fer season. Their children, Jean, Ed- ward, Robert and Mary Louise, are in school in Waterbury. Representative and Mrs. S. Wallace Dempsey have returned to the Capital for the opening of Congress and sre 8gain in their apartment in the May- flower. Representative and Mrs. Joseph Whitehead and family of Virginia have taken an apartment in the Burlington for the Winter. Representative and Mrs. U. Stone will be in the Harvard Hall Apartments for the Winter, having come to the Capital recently from Oklahoms, for the opening of Congress. Representative and Mrs. W. ©. Haw 12y have reopened their apartment | the ‘Woodley for the Winter. Representative Albert G. California has arrived in Waslington