Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1932, Page 18

SOCIETY. i - LSS SOCIETY, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1932. B2 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Charles J. Bell, who later in the Au- | the society last Winter by Miss Alice O w‘mzwmnuiorlummwmdma mpmp]lcednuwhudotuuw S ‘ I E I i inter. i President and Mrs. HOOVCI’ Advance on j i Supreme Court Reception Because of e HE President and Mrs. Hoover have made quite an innovation in chariging the time-bonored line of precedent for the annual state receptions at the White | ingto: House and on October 18, at 9 o'clock p.m., will give the reception in honor of the Supreme Court and judiciary, in- stead of placing it as usual the third entertainment and the second recep- tion an the list. Oc arose for the advance in date by the meeting of the American Bar on in Washington at that time, and the laying of the corner stone of the new Supreme Court Building which falls on the morning of the same date and for which many men of note are coming to this country. Mrs. Hoover has shown valuable fore- thought in arranging these important functions since she has been First Lady in the land, and to so place this stately Yeception at a time when it celebrates the corner stone laying and can so gen- erally be enjoyed is quite in that line. The Ambassador of Belgium and Mme. May and their daughters, the Milles. May, arrived in Washington this morning from New York, where the Ambassador went to meet them yester- day when they arrived aboard the Pennland from their home in Belgium. Mme. May and her daughters spent the Summer in Europe, the Ambassa- dor remaining in this country and spending a short vacation at Newport. The Secretary of Labor and Mrs. Doak will leave this evening for the former's old home in Wytheville, Va., where they will attend the Bicenten- nial homecoming. Secretary and Mrs. Doak will return to Notre Nid, their home, on the palisades of the Potomac, at the end of the week. ‘The Minister of Venezuela Senora de Arcaya were hosts at lunch- eon Sunday entertaining Col. Ignacio Andrade, son-in-law of Gen. Juan Vin- vente Gomez, President of Venezuela, who spent the week end in Washington. Col. Andrade returned to New York yesterday and will sail shortly from his home in Venezuela after being in Europe for some time. Senor Carlos Adrianza of Venezuela, who has made his home in New York for many years, also was a guest at the luncheon. ‘The Minister of Canada and Mrs. Herridge, accompanied by their infant son, William Richard Bennett Julian Vere Herridge, will arrive in Washing- ton this afternoon from Canada. This will be the first visit in Washington of the young Mr. Herridge, who was born in Canada last Summer and was chris- tened Sunday in Ottawa before the Minister and Mrs. Herridge started south. Senator and Mrs. Moses En Route To Washington for Visit. Senator and Mrs. George H. Moses, who have been in their home at Con- cord. N. H, are in New Ycrk at the ‘Waldor{-Asioria for a short stay before coming to Washington for the Winter. Representative and Mrs. William L. ‘Tierney of Greenwich, Conn., will re- turn to Washington this week and reopen their apartment at Wardman Park Hctel for the coming season. Miss Nella Veverka, daughter of the Minister of Czechoslovakia and Mme. Veverka, is returning to this country from a visit in her home land and will and | Corner Stone Laying. arrive at New York October 19 on the | City of Hamburg. Former British Ambassador to Wash- n and Lady Reading will arrive in New York this week and will be at the Waldorf-Astoria over Sunday, coming | to Washington for the laying of the | corner stone of the new Supreme Court Buél:m(, which will take place next | we Mrs. John Alfred Drake will arrive today from Grosse Pointe, Mich., and will be the guest for some time of Mrs. F. Eberhart Haynes. Mrs. Drake, who formerly was Miss Eleanor Bryan Smith, daughter of Comdr. George Leonard Smith, is a daughter-in-law of for- mer Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. J. Walter Drake of Detroit. Mrs. Drake, as Miss Smith, made her debut in Washington and she was among the most popular buds of her season. Mrs. Haynes will entertain at lunch- | eon Saturday in compliment to her | cousin, Miss Anna Southard Larner, | daughter of Mrs. John B. Larner, whose marriage to Mr. James Huston Simp- | son Cox, son of former Interstate Com- merce Commissioner and Mrs. James Irving Cox, will take place Saturday, October 15. Mr. Haynes has gone abroad on busi- {ness and no date has been set for his | return. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs Robert L. Lippman have received word from their home in Berkeley, Calif., of | the birth of a son to them yesterday in Berkeley. Mrs. Lippman was before her ! marriage in the West, Miss Ruth Fes- |ler, apd while making her home in | Washington was secretary to Mrs. Hoover. | | Eroa | Former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes will not open his home, on I street, until early in November. Justice Holmes in former years has returned to Washington in time for the convening of the Supreme Court for the first Monday in October. Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg, wife of for- mer Secretary of State, was among those at tea yesterday efternoon on the lawn at the Casina, at Hot Springs, during the tennis match>s of the twen- tieth annual tournament. Others at tea there were Miss Abigail Ingalls Sard, who is at Hot Springs with her mother, Mrs. Ingalls Sard, for the early Autumn. Mrs. Skirvin_Adams has closed her house, in New Port, and joined her sis- ter, Mrs. George Mesta, at the Weylin, in New York, where they will be until they come to Washington for the Win- ter season. Mr. and Mrs. George M. Eustls are guests at the Mayflower on their way by motor to their home, in New York City. During part of the Summer they were in Wyoming. Judge and Mrs. Ernest H. Van Fossen héve returned to their apartment, in Wardman Park Hotel, for the Winter, after spending the last six weeks in their home, in Lisbon, Ohio, and in Cleveland. Maj. and Mrs. Granville Fortescue, with their daughters, the Misses For- tescue, have moved from their apart- ment, in the Shoreham, to the house at 1903 S street, which they have leased from Mrs. Edward S. Munford. Maj. and Mrs. Fortescue will have with them there for a short time Mrs. MY (T (MY A Special in Large comfortable Wing Chairs, hair filled, with down cushions. Mahog- any claw and ball front legs. Can be had in a se- lection of plain or small figured materials, or in fig- ured Irish linens. Especially low priced, NOW FINE FURNITURE 1108 G St. N.W. Henderson Offers For a Limited Time Only Same chair with tight seat, $33. A REMARKABLE VALUE FOR A REALLY GOOD WING CHAIR James B. HENDERSON Wing Chairs INTERIOR DECORATING ist, 7676 Phones Dist. ;g7 Il NORMAL SHOE CO., Inc. Home of Enna Jettick Shoes for Women 1337 “F” STREET N.W. Notables at Italy-America Society Dinner for Ambassador. The Italy-America Soclety gave a dinner party last eveain; in the Chinese room of the Mayflower in honor of the retiring Ambassador of Italy, Nobile Glacomo de Martino, who will join Donna Antoinette de Martino in Italy late in the Autumn. Mr. Walter D. Davidge, director of the society, pre- sided at the dinner in the absence of a president, no one having been elected to succeed the late Dr. David Jayne Hill, who served in that capacity for some time before his death. In the company at dinner last evening were the members of the embassy staff, the Italian consul general in Baltimore, Signor Mario Carosl; Conte and Con- tessa Fumosoni-Biondi, Baron and Baroness von Pagenhardt; Mr. and Mrs. George Bowie Chipman and the latte: sister, Mrs. Henry Merrill; Mr, and Mi Walter F. Tuckerman, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Martin Savage, Mr. and Mrs, Donald Halstead, Mr. Gideon A. Lyon, Signor and Signora Strezzi, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur W. Hubbard and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George Maurice Morris; Dr. and Mrs. Davenport White, Mrs. Perry S. Heath, Mrs. Willlam Fitch Kelley, Mrs. Oscar Jarecki, Miss Vera Bloom, Mrs. Effingham Townsend, Mrs. Mark Reld Yates, Mrs. Elonzo Tyner, Mrs. M. de Clare Berry, Senora s Sanchez La- tour, Mrs. Robert Ke'ton, Mrs, Mitchell Carroll, Mr. Randoph Carroll, Mrs, Morris Evans, Mis; Meta Evans and Mr. George Morris Evans, Miss Mirlam McGarvey, Miss Janet Wright, Miss Blondell Malone, Miss Ethel Syford, Miss Mildred O'Neil, Gen. George O. Squier, Miss Jennie M. Gibbs, Prof. Robert K. Greenfield, Mr. Charles Wright, Baron Marcellus von Redlich, the Rev. Dr. Francesco Lardone, the Rev. Dr. Patrick Christopher, Dr. Mario Molari, Mr. Arthur Stanley Riggs, Col. ‘Wade H. Cooper, Col. George W. Bur- lelgh of New York and Mr. Mahlon Hopkins Janney. | Dinner was served in the Chinese room of the hotel, the guests being | seated at a large horseshoe-shaped | table on which the colors of the Amer- | ican and Italian flags, red, white, blue | and green were artistically arranged in | bowls of various sizes. The large silk | American and Italian flags donated to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Kendrick were hosts informally at tea Sunday after- noon following the christening of their young daughter Mary Lee, the cere- mony taking place in the Washington Cathedral, Rev. Dr. Charles T. War- ner officlating at 4:30 o'clock. Mrs. Allen G. Gartner and Mrs. Stephen Ap- lin were godmothers for the baby and Mr. G. A, Pralle was godfather. The tea followed in the home of the baby's parents. ~ Mrs. Edward Clifford and her daugh- ter, Miss Helen Clifford, who spent the Summer in England, have returned to their Georgetown home, where they joined Col. Clifford today. Col. Clif- ford spent a portion of the Summer with Mrs. Clifford and their daughter, and returned to Washington a few weeks ago. Mrs. Hoover Republican Women’s Guest at Club October 18. Mrs. Hoover will be guest of honor at the next meeting of the National League of Republican Women, which will be held from 4 to 6, October 18, at the National Capital Republican Club. ‘This meeting will be open to members only and membership cards may be se- cured from Mrs. Virgil Miller, chair- man of the Membership Committee, or Mrs. Harry E. Hull, treasurer. An- nouncement was made by Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty at the meeting of the District of Columbia Hoover-Curtis Club, which was held in the presidential suite of the Willard yesterday. Meet- ing with Mrs. Daugherty, the chairman of the organization, were: Mrs. Vir- ginia White Speel, national committee- woman from the District of Columbia; Mrs. Walter Newton, Mrs. French Strother, Mrs. Theodore Joslin, Mrs. W. W. Husband, Mrs. Harry E. Hull, Mrs. Virgil Miller, Mrs. Henry Albers, Mrs. T. Kingsley Carpenter, Mrs. Charles Alger, Mrs. L. J. Pettijohn, Mrs. John W. Frisell, Mrs. Robert Bates and Mrs. W. H. Allen, At the close of the meeting the én- tire group attended the meeting and luncheon of the National League of Re- publican Women, which was held in the small ball room of the Willard. This gathering was attended by more than 300 prominent Repubican women of the District of Columbia. Mrs. Anna C. M. Tillinghas, commis- Harris' the first place to come for first place new fashions sketched es” rough crepe frock with a neck and sleeve treatment that can be better appreciated when you try it on . .. we havew't seen @ smarter one at any price. |650 women and misses alike testify to the merit of our styling 14 jors. Misses, s“%mfe'n J;lrrn‘tlmsshorter ‘Women 1. 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Mr. Albert Stimson Ingalls has re- turned to his home at Hot Springs after visiting his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David Sinton Ingalls in ! their Cleveland home. Mr. Ingalls for- merly was assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aviation and now is Republic- an candidate for Governor of Ohio. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman is the guest of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney at Westerbury, Long Island, and will assist her at tea tomorrow afternoon. Others who will assist at the tea are Mrs. John W. Davis, Mrs. Frank Lyon Polk, Mrs. Francis P. Barvan and Mrs. David K. E. Bruce. Maj. and Mrs. Morris K. Barroll are ithe guests of the former's parents, Col. and Mrs. Morris K. Barroll in their home in Chevy Chase, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Avent Childress will be ‘hosts at a buffet supper this evening in their home in Westchester County, N. Y, for their daughter, Miss Mary Adair Childress and her fiance, Mr. Oscar Fitzland Moore, whose marriage will take place Thursday. 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