Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1931, Page 39

SOCIETY SECTION he Sunday Star. Capital’s Social Highlights Features for Women WASHINGTON, D. SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1931, MISS JANE THORPE, Debutante, giving a dinner for Miss Patience McCor- mick - Goodhart preceding MISS LUCILLE ELLIOTT, Debutante, whose sister, Mrs. Moncure Berg, will give a tea for he r November 18. Clinedinst Photo. -Seve;';ll Striking Changes Mark Official Program by First Lady As Outlined Blue Room to Be Thrown Open at White House Functions After Highcr Ranking Members of Society Are Received. [ BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. Not in many years has the official | #ocial program for the season been | #mapped out at so early a date as for 1931-32, and with Mrs. Hoover's usual «eare there are a number of striking Jchanges that will add to the comfort Sand the satisfaction of guests. The lue room, which for a good half cen- ry has served as the throne room— it were—at all State entertainments, | 1l not lose any of its pristine glory y the change and the President and rs. Hoover will have with them within ts walls the members of the cabinet d their wives as of old, but after e ranking diplomats and-a few of e highest officials are received the binet members and their ladies will rculate quite generally among the | eat body of guests, as will those diplo- | ats who care to do so0. This is| ohamet going to the mountain as the | ountain—the several thousand invited | ests—could not possibly crowd into ::e blue room The plan was tried out at several bf the receptions at the close of last geeson and when visitors found them- Bolves face to face with the President’s | pxecutive family instead of standing at & roped-off door and peering made | $0 end of favorable comment. Senators | #nd Representatives were able to meet | Phe executives personally and chat with $hem, and what is better, present their milies and friends to them. Then e foreign Ministers are given the op- rtunity of meeting and being met by ny persons whom they would fever meet were they confined solely | $o the blue room as in former times. | he blue room, once held open only for | the top cream of official and resident society, may now be entered by any of the guests, and while it makes it perhaps less brilliant it is certainly a more interesting place. Two important dinner parties are | #cheduled at the White House for the pear future, that which will be given $or Dino Grandi, who with his lady will Berrive on these shores a week from to- | orrow and the dinner the President | Il give for the members of his foot | Pall team at Stanford University. Mrs. Hoover, too, has some interesting small @vents on, for she is receiving groups Bf guests on various afternoons. This Weck at least a few of the season's Mebutantes will sip tea with her, taken #o the White House by their mothers to pey their respects. Cabinet members’ wives have outlined #heir program for the season and they ill be formally at home the first two WWednesdays in December. After the @¥ew Year they will regulate their days home to suit the social calendar on they must constantly figure aside their own personal duties. The t dinner parties for the President members of society who in the past grumbled much over disrupted dinner parties when they, too, wished to en- tertain the great and near great, will know, just exactly how to plan their schedules. These early announcements are of great value when so many im- portant guests must cross the continent to sit at table with the President, the Vice President or other high officials. It is indeed wonderful how many events a Pirst Lady of the Land must crowd into each 24 hours, and with all of her other duties Mrs. Hoover yet found time to attend the National Or- chestra concert ana applaud the leader, her white-gloved hands expressing with the large audience their delight with Hans Kindler's first concert. She not only joined in the applause, but stood up in her box in doing so. She had artist friends who had work at the opening showing of the Sears-Roebuck galleries and she took a little time on a busy day to visit the galleries. Mrs. Hoover cut a huge birthday cake Tuesday at the Y. W. C. A. headquar- ters, where she was the honor guest at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Girl Reserves. The cake was deco- rated with 50 colored candles. The wonderful chrysanthemum show was lacking in its official mtroducgon " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) i erihahinti Junior League Plans Unique Patchwork Party The Junior League again is planning an interesting party to add to its fund for the relief of the less fortunate in this community. This year it will be “a patchwork” party and will be held in the large ball room and in the Chi- nese room of the Mayflower, Monday | evening, December 7, from 10 in the | evening until 2 o'clock in the morning. | Mrs. Paul R. Kurtz is general chait-| man for the party and is assisted by | Mrs. Winslow Van Devanter as chair- | man of program; Miss Hallle Brooke, as chairman of the cabaret; Mrs. Bishop Hill, chairman of the printing; Mrs. Lawrence Baker and Mrs. Benjamin Weems, in charge of reservations for tables and tickets; Mrs. Jean Delattre Seguy, chairman of publicity, and Miss | Dorothy Hill, chairman of the girls, who will sell cigarettes and programs. Dur- ing the supper, for which tables may be reserved, novel features will be pre- | sented. At Home November 16 On Monday, November 16, due to the presence at the Washington Navy Yard of H. M. S. Delhi, flagship of Vice Admiral Sir Vernon Harry Stuart Hag- gard, K. C. B, C. M. G, R. N, the usual “at home" of the commandant and Mrs. Butler will be in the “sail Mrs. Hoover are quite generally ar- ged for the Winter season, and the loft,” where there will be cing from 4:30 to 6:30 o'clock. the Black and White Ball. ‘Underwood Photo. MISS ELIZABETH SHOUSE, Debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jouette Shouse. Harris-Ewing Photo. MISS CAROLINE SCHULZ, ‘Who made her debut at Fort Humphreys Wednesday, where her father, Col. Schulz, is commandant. Miss Fechet Returns To Capital Tomorrow From Princeton Visit Commandant of Fort Myer am‘J Mrs. Coates Are in New York. Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, U. §. A., and Mrs. Fechet will be joined tomor- Tow by their daughter, Miss Catherine Fechet, who is spending the week end in Princeton. The commandant of Fort Myer, Col. Harry N. Cootes, and Mrs. Cootes are | spending a week or 10 days in New| York. Col. and Mrs. George C. Van Dusen, | Commandant and Mrs B\nlerE ho formerly mado hielr home fn Min- neapolis, are now in Washington for the season, and are living at Ward- man Park Hotel, Lieut. Col. and Mrs. G. deF. Larner have leased an apartment at Wardman Park Hotel and will make their home there, Mrs. Gullion, wife of Maj. Allen Gul- lion, Now en duty at the Naval War " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. | Postmaster General and ‘The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. | Andrew W. Mellon, is expected to re- been at his home in Pittsburgh for | several days. i | The Postmaster General Walter F. Brown have returned to their apartment, at the Shorcham, after |spending a few days in their home, in ‘Ohio. The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Charles Francis Adams have as their guest over Sunday Mrs. Adams' sister, Mrs. Henry Britton Coxe. ‘The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Arthur M. Hyde, will be joined the end of the month by Mrs. Hyde, who has been at her homen Missouri, for sev- eral months, turn to Washington tomorrow. He has | and Ms. | Mr. Mellon in Pittsburgh For Visit of Several Days MI‘S. Brown Return Frnm Ohio—Mrs. Adams HaS Sister as Guest. The Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Ray | Lyman Wilbur, will leave today for | Texas and Louisiana, where he wik | make a number of addresses on the | White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, of which he is chairman. Tuesday he will make his first address |in Austin and meet the faculty of the | University of Texas. The following day | he will speak at a lunchecn meeting of (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) President Host to Former Claumntes President Hoover will entertain at dinner at the White House November 12, the occasion being the reunion of the Leland Stanford foot ball team of 1894, of which the President was finan- cial manager. the Texas Advisory Committee on II- | Miss Clara Bolling And Mr. Harry Fowler United in Marr;age | Bishop Freeman Officiates at Ceremuny in St. Margaret.s Church. The wedding yesterday afternoon of Miss Clara Lutz Bolling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wilmer Boll- ing, and Mr. Harry R. Fowler, son of | Dr. and Mrs. Harry A. Fowler, is of | more than usual interest in Washing- ton, where the families of the bride and bridegroom have been prominent | for several generations. The ceremony was performed in St. Margaret’s Church, the Bishop of Washington, the Right Rev. James E. Freeman, officiating, at 4 o'clock, assisted by the rector of the church, Rev. Dr. Herbert Scott Smith. The church had an unusually effec- tive arrangement of Easter liles, tall palms and ferns. As the guests, repre- sentative of official, diplomatic and residential society, as well as 8 large, contingent out-of‘town guests, as- sembled _anf¢ impressive program _of . (Coniinued on Page 4, Columa 5.). MISS CAROLINE MA Whose pare » Underwood RBURY BEALL, nts, Mr. and Mrs. William Dent Beall, will present her to society. Photo. Ambassador De Martino Back After Mr. Filipowicz Goes to Visit in Italy Chl'cago for Ope.ra Per- formance—Entertainment Planned at British The new dean of the diplomatic corps, the Italian Ambassador and No- bile Donna Antoinette de Martino, came to Washington last evening after a vacation spent in their native land. The Ambassador joined Nobile de Martino in September, she having gone abroad in the late Spring. They were met in New York Friday when they arrived aboard the Roma by the counselor of the em- bassy, Conte Marchetti, who has been charge d’affaires during the Ambassa- dor’s absence. ‘The Ambassador of Poland, Mr. Filip- owicz, will return in a few days from a short stay in Chicago, where he went to attend the Chicago Civic Grand Opera Company's performance, when Jan Kiepura, Polish tenor, sang. ‘The Ambassador of Great Britain and Lady Lindsay, will be hosts Wednesday at the embassy. They are now in New York, where the Ambassador joined Lady Lindsay, Friday, after she had been in New York for several days. They will return tomorrow. . The Belgian Ambassador and Mme. May and their daughter, Mile. Fran- colse May, will return the middle of the week from New York, where they went to attend the ball Friday, which the Belgian veterans in New York gave. ‘The Minister of Portugal and Vis- countess d'Alte returned Friday from a short stay in New York. The Minister of Switzerland and Mme. Peter will entertain a small com- pany informally at luncheon today in compliment to the United States Min- ister to Switzerland and Mrs. Hugh R. ‘Wilson, who are in this country for a short vacation. The Minister of Austria and Mme. | Prochnik will motor to Warrenton, Va., | this morning, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. P. Buchanan Blakiston of Balti- more, and will attend the luncheon which Mrs. David Bgtchelder will give in her home near there. Mr. and Mrs. | | Blakiston came to Washington Friday | and are guests over Sunday at the Austrian legation. ‘The Minister of the Irish Free State and Mrs. MacWhite are in New York over Sunday, having gone to attend the National Horse Show at Madison | Square Garden. | | The Siamese Minister, Maj. Gen. | | Prince Amoradat Kridakara, was host | | at dinner last evening, entertaining the | members of the legation staff in cele- bration of the anniversary of the birth of the King of Siam, who recently com- | pleted several months’ stay in this country. ‘The Minister of Salvador and Senora de Leiva have as their guests for sev- eral weeks Senora de Borja and her daughter, Senorita Yolanda Borja, who flew to Washington from their home in Salvador. The counselor of the Netherlands le- Embassy. two-month vacation. Mr. van Hoorn, who was charge d'affaires during the absence of the Minister through the Summer, will return to his post here after the first of the year. ‘The air attache of the French em- | bassy and Mme. Thenault will entertain | a smanl company informally at lunch- eon today. The assistant military attache of the French embassy and Mme. Lombard are spending & week in Atlantic City. Debutantes Feted |:y Col. and Mrs. Thorpe Col. and Mrs. George C. Thorpe are giving a dinner tomorrow night in their home on Woodley road for their debu- tante daughter, Miss Jane Thorpe, in honor of Miss Patience McCormick- Goodhart, debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Hamilton McCormick-Good- hart. Tuesday, November 17 Mrs. Thorpe and her daughter will give a luncheon for Miss Elsie Tuckerman and on No- | vember 14, there will be a luncheon for Miss Charlotte Mayo, debutante daugh- ter of Mrs. Pendleton Mayo. Miss Louise Brooks, granddaughter of Mrs. Edward Stotesbury of Philadelphia will come on for the dinner. It seems quite the natural thing that Col. and Mrs, Thorpe should entertain for Miss McCormick-Goodhart since in & way both she and Miss Thorpe are interested in British diplomats. Miss McCormick-Goodhart's uncle, Mr. Le- ander McCormick-Goodhart is commer- cial attache of the British embassy and Miss Thorpe’s brother-in-law, Mr. Ar- thur J. Pack, formerly attached to the British embassy here is now secretary of the British embassy in the Chilean capital. Cabinet Women Plan Official At Homes The wives and members of the cab- inet will follow their usual custom and will observe their days at home on Wed- nesdays this season. They have selected the first two Wednesdays in Decem- ber to receive and will then discontinue their at homes until after the holiday season. Mrs. Henry L. Stimson, wife of the Secretary of State, received the other cabinet hostesses ai her home, Wood- ley, on Cathedral avenue, a few days ago to plan the cabinet receiving day. The cabinet ladies met again last week, when Mrs. Hoover entertained the group at luncheon aboard the Presi- dent’s barge. Among the absentees at this party were Mrs. Walter P. Brown, wife of the Postmaster General, and Mrs. Arthur M. Hyde, wife of the Sec- retary of Agriculture, who were out of town, and Mrs. William N. Doak, wife of the Secretary of Labor, who un- gation, Mr. L. G. van Hoorn, salled yes- ferday for his home-in Holland for & able todhtend because of the