Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1931, Page 37

Feat Women = | ures for | WASHINGTON, MISS CONSTANCE RALSTON, With her parents, Lieut. Co l. and Mrs. Robert R. Ralston, active in the Army circle. Capital Societ To Outdoor Of Rest and Recreation |wi o President and Mrs. Hoo Largest and Most Parties at BY SALLIE V. Washington soclety from the least to the greatest has turned to outdoor life for rest and recreation and the whole | country seems to be on wheels rolling | hither and yon, seeking rest grounds| or play grounds in the open. The Presi- | H. PICKETT. | with the President, where nearly a Party of 25 to Dine This Evem'ng With Mr. and Mrs. Waller y Is Turning Life in Quest Vice Consul of Car-| diff, Wales, to Be Honor | Guest at Bridge Tea. ver Entertain;ng One of Impol’tant HOUSC Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Waller will enteriain a party of 25 at dinner this | evening at ths Congressiondl Country Clup. Mr. and Mrs. Waller and their daugh- thousand others dined; heard the in- | ter, Miss Loulse du Bose Waller, will teresting speeches —and everywhere | Jeayve Washington next week to spend heard ccmpliments for the committee | june at their country place, The Hills, arrdnging the affair. | near Predericksburg, Va. Rapidan. Each table seemed filled with per-| Mrs. Paul Clmer;x: éeddlcm, wife of dent and Mrs. Hoover are entertaining | 50ns especially selected for their com-| the vice consul at Cardiff, Wales, will be one of their largest and most important | Patability and interest, and both before | the honor guest at a bridge tea given house parties of the month at their | 88d after the program there was an| by Mrs. Charles Macon Wallingsford in camp on the Rapidan, where the ar- Informal reception in the small ball| her home on Gallatin street. At the rangement of the simple buildings gives T00m, the Willard affording the stately | tea tahle will be Mrs, Frederick Harvey- the Chief Executive and the First Lady | 8nd beautiful setting for the celebra- | cutter, Mrs. Harry P. White, Mrs. W of the Land much privacy, despite their | tion. Flags of all nations surrounded | Edgar Howser and Miss Altona Chart- walls, red and white flowers| ron. Pparty of guests. | the adorned the long guest tables and the | A dozens of smaller tables which filled| Mr. and Mrs. Galen L. Tait have as the room, and for each table there was| thelr guest in their home in Chevy s birthday cake, each portion bearing| a lighted red taper, and even the frozen dainty was 50 served as to show a red cross on the white background. With her usual charmingly independ- | ent spirit, Mrs. Hoover started for Rapidan Priday mid-day, driving her own car and taking with her Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, jr, and Mr. and| Mrs. Herbert Hoover, jr. The President followed her to their lodge yesterday, | having in his party the Governor of | Porto Rico, Theod\.” .10 arrived from New yesterday afternoon, and others. There is little to interest one at the Virginia camp besides conversa- tion, fishing, or perhaps horseback rid- ang, uniess, indeed, the President has developed a penchant for ‘games. etk With very little assistance Mrs. Hoo- ver has made some spots about their mountain resort awo blooming beauty, sleoming the rock and rocky gardens, planting ferns of the many varieties known in the Blue Ridge, selecting spots | for wild flowers and otherwise beautify- ing the place, but ever keeping it in its natural topography. One recalls the rugged mountain-like grounds in the rear of the Washington house of the President and Mrs. Hoover still owned by them and which they occu- pied while he was Secretary of Com- merce, and its delightful contrast to the rather artificial or man-made gar- dens of their neighbors. There was the pool for gold fish with its rocky brim surrounded by all sorts of ferns and water plants, flagstone walks lead- ing over the rough ground and birds ©f many species in the forest trees that protected them from the sun. ‘Thursday was & busy day for Mrs. Hoover, one of her journeys leading to Walter Reed Hospital, where on the beautifully sloping grouncs she attend- ed the dedicat:rial ceremonies of the new memorial chapel. Before going to the hospital Mrs. Hoover was the guest 8t luncheon of Mrs. Mitchell, wife of the Attorney General, where she met other ladies of the cabinet, and in the evening she attended the Red Cross solden jubilee dinner at the Willard Barrett of St. Louls Mrs. E. Z. Russell and Mrs. Louis H. Stabler will entertain jointly at a bridge luncheon Thursday at the home of Mrs. Mrs. Hoover, like other grown-up | Russell in honor of Mrs. Barrett. folk of the period, refuses to admit that it is alone for the children that she| Mrs. L. Eaton, wife of Dr. Eaton, will attends a circus, and frankly shows|be hostess 0 a compapy of 14 at| her own interest in the ring. However, | luncheon at the Shoreham Hotel tomor- cne of the very interesting things was | oW | o watch how the three generations of Hoovers enjoyed the performance, the grandmother and the parents dividing | attention between the arena and amusing themselves in seeing how the children enjoyed it, while Peggy Ann and Herbert, jr., and their small friends were apxious lest the older members of the party were missing something, | Mrs. James Irving Steel of the Bur- lington Hotel will entertain at luncheon at the Shoreham tomorrow in honor of (Continued on Page 3, Column 32.) | Owners of Rippon Lodge ! ; . Informal]y at Homc Today‘ Virginia, George Washington's coun- | try, as Marietta Minigerode Andrews terms it in her new book, is returning to its own, and among thuse to per- ceive the wondrous beauty and interest of the Old Dominion are Mr. and Mrs. Wade H. Ellis, who several years ago Nor was the circus the sll-absorbing topic of society, for many dinner | parties, all of them informal and most of them not even black tle affairs, took place Thursday night, and after-din- | ner entertainment was a trip to Grif- fith Stadium to see the wrestling match | P0UBht Rippon Lodge and its several between Bergel Kalminkoff and Dick | hundred acres and who since then | Shikat for the benefit of the unem- have enlarged the domains some hun- ployed, The gentler sex sat stolidly| O7eds of acres more, their land reach- | beside their escorts and enjoyed the|'DF 10 the Pitomac and having his- sport as much as did their husbands.|foric environs on every side, besides being only about five miles from Po- | hick Church. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis fol- | | The Secretary of State and Mrs. | stimson will give a garden party at|low the ever-present latch-string sys- | Woodley, their piace on Cathedral ave- | tem at Rippon Lodge and will be at |nue, Wednesday afternoon when | home there this afternoon from 3 to 7| imfl, guests will include the entire dip- | 0¢lcck, and hol hcourse Mrs. Ellis will | | lomatic corps, the cabinet and other | POUr tea. She has sent no cards, and | officials, members of the Supreme | there Is something delightfully informal | }cgun' ‘Army, Navy and Marine Corps| nd Southern about such events as | officers and their wives and then socicty | Uhes¢, distinguished persons in poli- | folk. The gardens will be at theiy|UcS: the judiciary, Army, Navy and| | high point with biossoming plants and | UnoMclal sets stopping by for a little | I o prettler spot could be found than| Yi*it and often for & cup of tea. Mr.| ds of the estate, | 319 Mrs. Ellis will spend all their Sun- the gently rolling grounds of the estate. | 0, "ot Rippon Lodgs.untl they sefl| The Davis Cup tournament opens on | for France July 1L con the Isle de (Continued on. Page 3, Ofm 3 Chase, Md., the latter's sister, Mrs. John | Claudel, SOCIETY SECTION D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY With and 24, | he Sunday Star. 1931. MISS ANNA KATHERINE SHAWN, her parents, Capt. Mrs. Franklin Shawn, living on Reservoir road. Harris-Ewing Photo. MISS JEAN KINGMAN, Daughter of Lieut. Col. and Mrs. John J. Kingman, to attend Miss Pauline Brown at her marriage to Lieut. Winston Folk, June 6. Bachrach Photo, ng Ambassador Is Returni After Several Weeks in Italy M. Claudel Will Be Joine& Tomorrow by His Daughter and Son—Chilean Diplomnt The Italian Ambassador, Nobile de|Frau von Prittwitz und Gaffron will Martino, will arrive in New York the |sail at the end of next week to spend latter part of the week from Italy, |the Summer in their home in Germany. where he accompanied Donna An-| Herr Rudolf Leitner, first secretary toinette de Martino several weeks ago. of the embassy, will be charge d'affaires R | during the Ambassador's absence. Ambassador of France, M.| —— will be joined tomorrow by| The Ambassador of Poland and Mme. his daughter and son, Mile. Reine |Filipowicz will return to Washington Claudel and Mr. Henri Claudel, who |today from Mount Kisco, N. Y., where vent to New York with Mme. Claudel | they were the guests of the governor of The to bid her bon voyage when she sailed |the Federal Reserve Board and Mrs. Friday for their home in France. Eugene Meyer. They attended the PRSIy Westchester County Musical Festival, The Ambassador of Chile and Senora | When their distinguished countryman, de Davila will be back in the Capital | Ignace Jan Paderewski, one of the this evening or tomorrow. They have | founders of the Polish republic and its been in New York for several days. | first premier, gave a recital. The Ambassador of Turkey, Mr.| Senora de Malbran, wife of the Am- Ahmet Muhtar, accompanied by the bassador of Argentina, will sail Wed- second secretary of the embassy, Mr. Desday, June 17, for Europé to spend Bulent, went to New York yesterday | the Summer. The Ambassador will ac- and will return Tuesday. company here to New York and then Capital’s Social Highlights v (e MISS JOSEPHINE RICE, Daughter of Capt. and Mrs.. Arthur Rice, popular in the Navy-set. Harris-Ewing Photo. Secretary of Interior Returns From Trip to BOS(OI“I and NCW YDl'k Florida—MTr. and Mrs. C. E. Saltzman Here. The Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, returned yesterday to the Mayflower from a trip to Boston and New York, where he made several of the Government” was the subject of his talk before the Massachusetts Fed- eration of Women's Clubs. While in New York he spoke Thursday evening at the annual dinner of the National In- dustrial Conference Board, and on the following evening before the National tlon on the subject of “The Radio in Our Republic.” The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Arthur M. Hyde, who has been on a flashing trip in Florida, will return to Washington Tuesday. The Secretary of Commerce, Mr Robert Patterson Lamont, has with him for the day in his home, on Kalorama road, his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Eskridge Saltzman, who have just returned from their wedding trip. Mrs. Saltzman was before | Gertrude Lamont. Mr. and Mrs. Saltz- |man will leave tomorrow morning for their home in New York. Mrs. Lamont, who is in New York, | | will return to her Washington home the l‘nnc part of the week. Representative and Mrs. John M. Evans have with them for two weeks ‘thch' son, Ensign Philips Cabell Evans, | who is on leave from his ship, the| U. 8. 8. Northampton. | Representative and Mrs. Richard 8. | Aldrich will return the middle of the | week from New York, where they are | at the Ambassador. | The alien property custodian and Mrs. | Howard Sutherland have with them ’!hEh' daughter, Mrs. Paul Mayo of | Denver, Colo., who arrived yesterday. | She will be joined in a few days by | Mr. Mayo, and with him she will sail | Friday for Europe to spend the Summer. Mrs. Henry Allen Cooper, widow of Representative Cooper, is leaving on Wednesdsy to spend the Summer at her home in Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson are | spending a few days in New York, where they went Friday. Mrs. Anderson will return today. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Wilkins have | closed their home in Washington and | | opened their estate at Halpine, Md. Dr. and Mrs. Willlam C. Gwynn will —_— return to Washington. Senors de Mal- The lunbuudor' of Germany and! (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) addresses. “The Humanitarian Aspects | Advisory Council on Radio in Educn-‘irector. (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) Mr. Arthur M. Hyde Is in Thice Sisters of Miss Louise Cocke “Bride-Elects" Are Making Will Be Attendants at Her Marriage to Mr. Paul Vi Miss Louise Cocke, daughter of the Rev, and Mrs. Henry Teller Cocke, will have her three sisters attending her at her wedding, June 6, to Mr. Paul Vincent Mook. Miss Alice Cocke will be the mald of honor and the brides- malds will be Miss Clara Cocke and Miss Adela Cocke. The wedding ceremony will be per- formed at 8 o'clock in All Saints’ Church, of which the bride's father is A small reception will follow the ceremony at the house. Rev. and Mrs. Cocke will entertain the wedding party at a buffet supper | Priday, June 5, following the rehearsal | |of the wedding. A number of parties have been given for Miss Cocke and several others are planned. Miss Helen Nichols will be hostess at a shower Tuesday for Miss Cocke. Miss Alberta Perley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Warner Perley, whose marriage to Midshipman John | Guthrie t of her marriage Saturday, May 3, Miss | vt e Academy will take place June .5, has | been the recipient of & number of pre- nuptial parties. Several others will be given for her this week and the week of her wedding. Miss Margaret Yard will entertain at a bridge tea for Miss Perley Tuesday and June 5 Miss Harvey Wiley will entertain at a luncheon at the Chevy Chase Club for her. Miss Frances Morse was hostess at & bridge luncheon Wed- nesday and Miss Mary Shinn gave & bridge tea Friday for her. Among the out-of-town guests who will arrive to attend the wedding will be Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cameron West, Miss Mary West, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Harts, all of Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Blydenburgh of Smithton, Long | 1sland. The rehearsal for the wedding of Miss Mabel Elizabeth Barr, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William Carlisle Barr, to Mr. Edgar Denton Williams, jr., June 2, will take place the evening preceding the wedding and will be followed by & supper party given by the bridegroom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Denton ‘Willlams. A round of pre-nuptial entertain- ments have been given in honor of Miss Barr and several others are plan- ned before the wedding. St. John's Episcopal Church will be the scene of *¢He" g June 20 of Miss C! daugh- ter of Milton of ncent MOOl(. | Zandt Cox. The ceremony will be- per- | formed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Miss Jones will entertain about 50 of | her classmates of Wellesley College and | Miss. Maderia’s School at luncheon ‘Thursday : Miss Ernestine Rowland Wertenbaker, daughter of Lieut. Col. and Mrs. George | L. Wertenbaker, has selected June 6 for the date of her wedding to Lieut. Charles Grant Goodrich, Air Corps, U. 8. A The wedding will be performed at | high noon at Rock Rest, the charming (Continued on Pag lumn 1.) Ambassadors Sponsor Work of French Artist ‘The Ambassador of Frangce, M. Paul Claudel, will attend the exhibition of sculpture by M. Ernest Durig, which opens today at 217 Randolph place northeast, and will continue through Sunday, May 31. A number of the works of the sculp- tor were inspired through the poems of Ambassador Claudel. Among others who are particularly interested and will attend the event are the Ambassador of Germany, Herr von Prittwitz und Gaffron; the Minister of Sweden, M. Bostrom; Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, Judge John Barton Payne, Miss Mabel Boardman and Judge Max Huber, who will open the exhibition. Envoy of Grea?Brhain Celebrating King's Birthday “The Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir Ronald Lindsay, will be host at dinner Wednesday evening, June 3, in celebration of the birthday anniversary { of King“George V of England. |- Lady Lindsay will leave Washington early in June for Bar Harbor, Me., where she has taken a house for the Stimmer season. The Ambassador will spend a portion of the Summer in Eng- land, joining Lady Lindsay at Bar Har- bor later in the year. Dr. an'ri Mrs. i’erry Keep Informal Day at Home Dr. and Mrs. Matthew White Perry are at home informally this afternoon | from 4:30 to 6:30 o'clock in their apart- | ment at Woodley Park Towers. Dr. and Mrs. Perry have issued no cards, and Mrs. Nathaniel B. Dial, the - latter's mother, will be among those assisting them. Mrs. Perty was before marriage Miss Fannie Dial