Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1932, Page 19

SOCIETY (Continued Prom Second Page.) New York and Washington had as their guests during the holidays their son, Mr. J. Marshall Dickens, a student of Randolph Macon College, at Ashland, Va., and Miss Rachel Smith, daughter of Dr. Edward Ehrlich Smith, professor of education of that college. Mr. and Mrs. James Monroe Stevens will entertain at dinner Monday evening preceding the Washington bachelors' cotillion and will have among their guests Mr. Edgar Hamilton Lee Punk, Miss Margaret Rausch, their son, Ben- jamin Stevens, and others taking | their guests later to the cotillfon at the | Mayflower. | e | Mrs. Gordon W. Sprague entertained | at luncheon at the Shoreham yesterday | in honor of Mrs. Onan Hydrick of Co- | lumbia, S. C. Her other guests were Mrs. Vernon Parsons, Mrs. Robert Theobald, Mrs. Henry Clarke and Mrs. | Robert Cooper. | = | Dr. Kathryn McHale, director of the American Association of University ‘Women, has returned to the Broadmoor after spending the holidays in New York | and Southampton, Long Island. | | Dr. Thomas E. Larkin will entertain at the dinner dance at the Shoreham tonight, his guests numbering 10. | Mr. and Mrs. Chester Leasure re- cently moved from 4518 Klingle street | to 3018 Forty-fourth place, in Wesley | Heights, which was formerly the home of Col. and Mrs. Christopher Brown | Garnett. 1 Women'’s City Club Will Have Forum Lunch Tomorrow. A forum luncheon will be held at the Women's City Club tomorrow at 1| o'clock. The guest of honor * and| sspeaker will be Mr. John M. Gibbs, di- | Tector, division of State and city organ- | ization of the United States George| Washington Bicentennial Commission. | Mr. Gibbs will tell of the nation-wide | plans of the commission. Mrs. Acheson | F. Hassan will preside. Among those subscribing are Mrs. william Lee Corbin, Mrs. Merritt O.| Chance, Miss_Sarah Cushing, Mrs Grace Ross Chamberlin, Miss Maud | Douglas, Miss Mate H. Lewis, Mrs.| Bertha L. Owens, Mrs. Edward Quin- | tard, Mrs. Fred Repetti Mrs. W. B. Rogers and Mrs. A. B. Stewart. ‘ The Arts Club of Washington will | have a busy month with its prepara- tions for the Bal Boheme February 8, | the great event of the year for members | of this organization and Washington. | Centers of creative work in all branches of the arts also will be busy getting ready for their contributions to the pageantry or the entertainment fea- tures of the outstanding carnival ball | of the year. In private homes, too, the | needles will fly in the making of the | costumes for the occasion, for it is doubtful if any event has received | more generous support from the general | public than this annual frolic of the| Arts Club, which will take place as usual at the Willard Hotel ball rooms. The standing committee for the ball 45 headed by Mr. Carlton van Valken- burg as chairman, with Mr. Charles Bittinger and Mr. Clifford K. Berry- man serving af vice chairmen, these| assisted by a cOmmittee of nine women | and two men wssigned special duties, | and all prominiatly identified with the | Arts Club. Miss Anne Fller Abbott is chairman of the Committee on Decorations for the Ball Room, assisted by Mr. Bittinger. Mr. Berryman is in_charge of hotel arrangements. Mrs. Marie Moore For- rest and Mr. Percy Jewett Burrell are co-chairmen of the pageant, Which Dame Rumor says will add new laurels to the list of achievements of the club. Maj. John A. Hillman heads the Floor Committee. Mrs, Charles E. Hoover is in charge again of the poster contest, which she managed so efficiently last year. Mrs John Otto Johnson is chairman of jutiges and awards for costumes, and to Miss Frances B. Johnstcn again goes the responsibility for window displays in the shops. Miss Marjorle Lowe 1s in_charge of the cabaret. | Miss Elizabeth Langenbeck is chair- man of boxes and patronesses. Mrs. Fulton Lewis will have charge of the designing and making of the costumes to be worn by the Floor Committee and the pages at the ball. Mrs. Susan Hunter Walker is chairman of the Pub- licity Committee. | The National Woman's party will give a tes in their national headquar- ters, the Alva Belmont House, at 144 B street northeast, Sunday afternoon, from 4:30 to 6 o'clock, when the Min- | ister of the Union of South Africa, | Mr. Louw, will speak on “The Status of Women in South Africa,” and Mrs Returned to College ANNE WILLIAMS, gueat of ‘her grand- MISS SALLY Who, after being the mother, Mrs. Russell B. Harrison, for the holidays and enjoying & number of interesting social events, among them the dance which Mrs. Hoover gave for her son, Mr. Allan Hoover, has returned to Smith College. —Bachrach Photo. of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Pyle, in Wesley Heights. Mrs. Pyle has also visited Mrs. Clarence Lane, on Forest lane. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Kelly of Dor- chester, Mass., are at the Dodge dur- ing their brief stay in the Capital. Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Butler of Buffalo, N. Y., are at the Carlton for a few days. Benefit Party Tonight Given for Aloysian Club. The members of the Aloysian Clus have planned a number of benefit parties to aid the club financially. The first of the series will be held this evening in the club house, at 47 I street, and is sponsored by Miss Minnie Mahler, Miss Margaret Chamberlain, Miss Catherine Barrett, Miss Cath- erine Hughes, Miss Margaret Kane, Miss Rose Ann Dalton and Miss Ger- trude Miller. There will be a novel entertainment with many surprise fea- tures offered for the pleasure of the guests, the setting of which will be a cabaret in a Spanish village. There also will be dancing and cards. Mrs. Marie Moran will act as mistress of ceremonies. Miss Janet Richards will speak on “Yorktown” this afternoon for the members of the Housekeepers' Alliance, who will be the guests of Mrs. Frank Ellsworth Cunningham in her home, at 2704 Cathedral avenue. Miss Grace E. McKinstry, well known portrait painter, who is spending the Winter in Washington, will be at home tomorrow in her studio, in room 22 at 808 Seventeenth street, from 11 o'clock in the morning to 3 o'clock in the afternoon. She will give an exhibition of oils, water colors and pastels, which include some studies made last Sum- mer at Gloucester and Marblehead. Members of the League of American Pen Women are especially invited and the exhibition will be open to the public. » Phi Sigma Beta of American Uni- versity entertained at a formal “closed” dance last evening in the garden house of the Dodge Hotel. There also were guests from several other organizations on the campus. Dr. and Mrs. Zucker were the chaperons. Mr. and Mrs. 1. E. Shoemaker had with them over the holidays their son- in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Hauser of Drexel Park, Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. De Lashmutt, the latter another daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker, who have made their home with them for the last year, are established in their new home, in Country Club Hills, Va. Mr. Peter H, Redpath of Los Angeles | THE EVENING home in Providence, R. I, and are| stopping at the Carlton. Mrs. Ruth Cooke Hyde of Lansford, Pa., accompanied by Mrs. Myrtle Lauer, has arrived in Washington for a lengthy visit and is at Wardman Park Hotel. ADAMS MEETS SAVANTS WHO WILL EXPLORE SEA Naval Secretary Receives Scien- tists Preparing for Research Voyage in U. S. Submarine. Two scientists who will go aboard an | American submarine to the West In- dies to make researches this Spring | today met Secretary Adams. Rear Admiral W. R. Gherardi, hydrographer of the Navy, introduced Prof. Richard M. Field, department of geology, Prince- ton University, and director of the International Scientific Expedition, and Dr. F. A. Vening Meinesz professor of geodesy, University of Utrecht, mem- ber of the Geodetic Association of Hol- land and chairman of the Committee of Gravity-at-Sea of the International Geodetic ~Association, to the cabinet officer. | The two scientists will study the | Bartlett Deep, an ocean valley that | has never been adequately investigat- | ed, and make gravity measurements in | the vicinity of the West Indies. They | will travel aboard the submarine U. S. 5. S-48. Secretary Adams met the scientists in his office at 2:30 p.m. He | posed for photographs with them and | Wished them godspeed on their sci- | entific voyage. TRAIN NAMED FOR EDISON Pennsylvania Official Honor Mem- ory of Electrical Wizard. One of the principals flyers of the Pennsylvania Railroad between Wash- | ington, Philadelphia and New York has been named ‘‘The Edison,” in memory of the late Thomas A, Edison, officials announced today. Heretofore the trains were known only as No. 155 and No. 142, The former departs from New York at 3:30 p.m., while the latter leaves Washington at 2 pm. Use of the distinguished inventor’s name was considered particularly ap- propriate because the route of “The Edison” soon will be electrified. Officials also pointed out the Pennsylvania Limited, in 1887, was the first irain in the world to be lighted by electricity following Edison's development of the | incandescent lamp. TALKS ON FOLK DANCING Miss Mary Wood Hinman, Chicago, | folk dancing authority, will speak at a meeting of the Women's Physical Edu- | cation Association of the District of Columbia at 8 o'clock on Tuesday eve ning at the Marjorie Webster School. Miss Hinman, who conducts a folk dancing school in Chicago, will address the Washington group on “What the Modern Age Has Done to Dancing.” She will give a demonstration of folk dancing after the talk. hilipsborn ELEVENTH ST. = BETWEEN F4G STAR, WASHINGTON, Southern Guest MRS. ROBERT HITT SPARKS Of Columbia, S. C., guest in the Cap- ital and assisting her uncle, the Rev. Meade Bolton MacBryde, at a reception at the Mayflower Hotel January 11. PET; 7BEQUEATHED $5,000 | Los Angeles Woman's Will Leaves Fund for Their Care. LOS ANGELES, January 8 ().—Pets of the late Mrs. Sarah C. Lincoln gnawed bones and lapped milk as usual yesterday and will continue to do so under terms of a $5,000 fund set aside for them. Her will, probated today, left the bulk of her $£25.000 estate to a friend, Mrs. Maud E. McKean of Pasadena, with the provision that $5,000 be used as a “pet fund.” Blizzard Maroons 20 on Train. SEWARD, Alaska, January 8 (#). Twenty persons aboard & railway train, between here and Fairbanks, have been marooned by a blizzard on Broad Pass since Monday. Railway officials said they have ample food. The tempera- ture ranged between 44 and 48 below zero at Fairbank: . The Collier Inn Regular Dinners, 75¢ Special Club Steak x> Chicken Dinners, $1 CLUB LUNCHEONS SERVED DAILY JANUARY WO00D URGES COURAGE IN CUTTING EXPENSES Indianan Would Reduce Army and Navy Bases and Limit Aid to World War Veterans. By the Associated Press. A test of congressional courage in D, _C, FRIDAY, 8, 1932. EXHIBITS PUPILS’ WORK Deborah Kallen's Palestine Dis- play on View Sunday. An exhibition of art work by pupils of Deborah Kallen's Progressive Edu- cation School in Palestine will be held Sunday afternoon from 3 to 6 o'clock at the home of Dr. and Mrs. S, §. Jafle, 407 Dorset avenue, Somerset, Md. Dr. Lewis L. Lorwin of the Brookings Institution will speak. Miss Kallen, who was director of art education for children in the Bos- ton Museum of Fine Arts, started her | school in Palestine in 1931. She was the only teacher, and its activities were concentrated in one room. It now has an enrollment of more than 100 | pupls and & stafl of 12 teachers. WILL BE ARRAIGNED | up today by Representative Wood, In- | diana Republican. He said pleas for economy were “idle conversation” without a determined stroke at major outlays. Wood said | the only four activities subject to large cuts are construction, military expend- itures, postoffice and veterans’ outlays. ‘Three-pc. suite and 5 separate cushions, Man, Arrested on Rum Charge in |.nap fasieners, tailored to your farniture Imported Belgian Linen, $15.00. Write or Raid, to Face Police Court. | phone for samples. R. L. William Joseph Durkin, 34 years old, | L R satn st. of 1321 Belmont street, was to be ar- — raigned in Police Court on a charge of possession of 17 gallons of whisky today | following his arrest in a raid on his | apartment late yesterday afternoon. Durkin was taken into custody by members of the first inspection district vice squad, led by Sergt. R. A. Johnson. He obtained his release under bond of $500 shortly after being booked at first district headquarter: | The House of Courtesy trimming Federal expenditures was set | SLIP_ COVERS Philipsborn LEVENTH ST. - Wood urged elimination of useless |salaries and lower construction ex- Army posts and Navy yards, a large | penses on public roads. slice in military outlays, elimination| To balance the postal budget, Wood of payments to veterans who pay in- |said, rates must be increased or sal- come taxes or receive Government |aries reduced 20 per cent. Reduced— Special Group PAJAMAS and NEGLIGEES Formerly $13.75 to $22.50 Now 975 and |500 An unusual opportunity for Saturday shoppers to obtain exquisite boudoir apparel at great reductions. Rizik Brothers 1213 P STREET Phone National 1133 BETWEEN F&G For Saturday January Sales Event . . . Special Purchases Perstan, $39.50 \) Fox, $39.50 THE NEW BOUCLE and New Arrivals They All Praise Our PIN MONEY FROCKS 19 FOR EVERY DAYTIME AND EVENING ¢ OCCASION Cantons Sheers Prints GAY NEW SPRING SHADES—LATEST PARIS DETAILS SIZES FOR WOMEN, MISSES, JUNIORS Satins Laces Combinations Print, $15 COATS Touw will be & guest of homor. MIS. | hgg joined Mr. Harold Gatty in his ' Paul Myron Linebarger, District chair- | apartment at Wardman Park Hotel. | man, and the other District officers |y Gatty is @ famous aviator and has of the woman'’s party will be hostesses.| pecn in Washington about two weeks. | Following the program the District pranch will hold its annual election of | officers, with announcement of plans for the year. Mr. and Mrs. Charles 8. Hadley of Brooklyn, N. Y. have motored to Washingion and are at the Carlton for several days. Mrs. F. Lawrence Pyle of Wilming ton, Del, and her two children, Hen- rietta d Robert, have been guests don’t_delay! Miss Elizabeth R. Jackson and Miss Mary T. Bigelow are spending a few days in New York and are stopping at the New Weston. Cal Turner of Pasadens, is at the Dodge for an indefinits 1 stay. M. have JEIC IARRIS FoSTREET . and Mrs. Houghton P. 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