Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1933, Page 29

Cap ital’s Social ‘Highlights Part 3—12 Pages MRS. ELIPHALET F. ANDREWS, Chairman of the annual garden party for the benefit of the House of Mercy in the Cathedral Close, May 18. Mrs. Roosevelt’s Program Covers Broad Range of Activity in Busy Week Fifteen-tent Luncheon Contrasting Events Arfiong Dozens Engaged In by First Lady. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. Never ceasing to be a wonder in her executive ability and divessified talents, Mrs. Roosevelt's program last week em- braced dozens of events that ranged all the way from a 15-cent luncheon cooked and served by Girl Scouts to a state dinner in the White House. There twere in between a farewell to incom- ing and outgoing Ambassadors, in which fceremonies she joined the President, @nd she still had time for an occasional horseback ride, an airplane ride—one quite memorable one, a night ride with 'Amelia Earhart out of Washington and over the city of Baltimore—and keeping ppointments to receive the several Ehousand Daughters of the American evolution who paid their respects, and [Broups of other visitbrs. In the midst of all this she yet had fime for a flight to New York, a visit to the dog show, where she awarded the pprizes, and still time to dictate letters, arrange her housekeping budget just as though she were back in her Hyde Park home and do a hundred other things which will never bear record in the coming years. One of the tasks which anost stirs her emotions is the reception of letters calling for help and then the dozens of gifts of every conceivable kind, but every one carrying a message of real affection and admiration. this week will be almost as full of engagements as was last week for Ms. Roosevelt, for other foreign statesmen will arrive and there will be more for- malities at the White House and in the embassles and legations. There will be & White House dinner for M. -Herriot, former prime minister of France, who will also be entertained by the Secretary of State, Mr. Hull, and by the new Ambassador of France and Mme. de Laboulaye. Wednesday cvening RS, Roosevelt will attend the dinner given by tae Gen- eral Council of the National Leagwe of Women Voters at the Hotel Washing- ton—the home of the Vice President and Mrs. Garner—when many women in official life will be guests. Mrs. Harlan Piske Stone, wife of Mr. Justice Stone of the Supreme Court, one of the most active members of the league, is on the Committee of Arrangements and Mrs. Frederic A. Delano, the aunt of Mrs. Roosevelt, serves cn the commiitee with Mrs. Stone. ‘There will com= to Washington this week as a visitor Mrs. Thomas R. Mar- shall, wife of the late Vice President, who will be the guest of Mrs. John Allan Dougherty. She will arrive Thursday and during her stay here she will be the object of entertainment, Bor no woman in Washington official and State Dinner Are | life ever boasted more friends. It was| | she who, with the Vice President, enter- | tained the King and Queen of the | Belgians at dinner and otherwise acted | | as their ghostess during their visit to| | Washington after the close of the | World War, and she likewise was a| graceful hostess to the Prince of Wales‘ at the largest dinner given for him| during his visit about the same ume,l‘ ‘The Congressional Club, which stands | quite apart in the world of clubdom, being composed entirely of the wives, | mothers, sisters and daughters of Sen- | ators and Representatives, will celebrate its silver anniversary Friday and Sat- urday ‘n honor of the founders of the club. The program consists of break- fast at noon Friday, with the founders | as honor guests, the feast to be held at the Roosevelt; a program at 2 o'clock at the club and tea there at 4:30 o'clock. Saturday there will be a thea- ter party at Keith’s at 9 o'clock and at 10:30 the same morning thep will be received by Mrs. Roosevelt at the | White House. From the President's mansion they will start on a motor trip to Virginia, with a specially arranged luncheon, and at night there will be an claborate buffet supper to close the two- day ceremonies. Groups of important women will be | at the Scout House, where Mrs. Roose- velt was a guest yesterday, each of the three days of the Better Homes week— Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Those on the list for tomorrow include Mrs. Warren R. Austin, wife of Senator Austin, a member of the District Girl| Scout Council; Mlle. May, daughter of | the Eelgian Ambassador and Mme. May, captain .of Girl Scout Troop No. 33; Mrs. Edward C. Eicher, wife of Repre- sentative Eicher; Mrs. William Doak, wife of the former Secretary of Labor; | Mrs. Jahncke, wife of the former Assist- ant Secretary of the Navy; Miss Mary Anderscn, director Women's Bureau, Department of Labor; Miss Mary Stewart, assistant director of education; | Mrs. Henry Alve Strong; Miss Helen | Atwater, editor of Journal of Heme | Economies; Mrs. George Burnham, asso- | ciate member of the District of Colum- bia Council of Girl Scouts, and Mrs. Proctor L. Dougherty, member of Girl Scout Council, District of Columbia. Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, and Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone, wife of Mr. Justice Stone {of the Supreme Court, and others will | | be at the Scout House Tuesday, serving | with a group of important women and | an equally prominent group will serve on Wednesday, the party including Mrs. | Préderick H. Brooke, national field chairman, Girl Scouts, Inc., and Mrs. Henry Flather, member of the national board. e f { SOCIETY SECTION he Sunday Staf. WASHINGTON, D. C, MRS. HENRY MORGENTHAU, JR., Whose husband has been chosen as director of the Farm Credit Administration, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1933. BARONESS VAN BRUEGEL DOUGLAS, Wife of the new counselor of the Netherlands legation, —Harris Ewing Photos. MRS. JULIUS Y. TALMADGE, of Athens, Ga., entertained socially while attending the D. A. R. Congress; new president of the Daughters of the Barons of Runnymede. Miss Whittington To Become Bride of Kenneth Davenport Miss Mignon Shirley and W.R. B. Acker to Be Mar- ried in August. Representative and Mrs. William M. ‘Whittington of Greenwood, Miss., an- nounce the engagzment of their daugh- ter Mary to Mr. Kenneth Davenport, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Davenport of Accord, N. Y. The wedding will take place in September. Miss Whittington is a senior at Vas- sar College and will receive her degree in June. Mr. Davenport is a graduate of Cornell University, class of 1929. He is in business in High Falls, N. Y., where the young couple will make their home. Former Representative and Mrs. | Swagar Shirley announce the engage- ment cf their daughter Mignon to Mr. William R. B. Acker, Charles Ernest Acker of this city. Mr. Acker, who is connected with the Freer | Gallery of Art, is at present in Japan. He will return to this country in Aug- ust for his marriage to Miss Shirley, which will take place in Canada, at the Summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Shirley. Bishop Willlam T. Manning and Mrs. Manning have announced the engage- ment of their daughter, Elizabeth Alice van Antwerp, to Mr. Griffith Baily Coale of 125 West Eleventh street, New York, N.'Y. Miss Menning was graduated from Miss Chapin’s School and is a member of the Junior League. years she has been engaged in business and is one of the executives of a leading travel agency in this city. The prospective bridegroom was born in Baltimore, a son of the late Mr. and (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.). son of Mrs. | For the last few | New The Postmaster General, Mr. James A. Farley, is spending today with Mrs. Farley and their children in New York. Mr. Farley had with him for the week his 5-year-old son, Jimmie. Mrs. Snell, wife of Representative Bertrand Snell, leader of the minority in~ the House of Representatives, is spending a few days with her daughter, Miss Sara Louise Snell, at Vassar, where ‘| the latter is a student. Mrs. Snell will return the first of the week. Representative Harry P. Beam re- turned to Washington last week from | Chicago, where he had been spending a short time, and he is in his apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel until the end of the present session. Mrs. William Howard Taft, wife of the late President Taft, who also was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, will return to Washington about May 4, after traveling for some time in Italy and yisiting Jerusalem during Easter. Befcre going abroad Mrs. Taft spent some weeks in the South and early in | the season will follow her custom of | many years and go to Murray Bay, Canada, to join the Teft colony of relatives. Mrs. Little, wife of Col. Louis McCarty Little, now in command of Marines in Haitl, is expected to come to Washing- ton from New York, where she stopped after returning Q the States. Postmaster General Goes to York for Week End Mrs. Bertrand Snell Visits Her D;ugfiter at Vassar—Mrs. Taft to Return About May 4. Mrs. Joseph E. Davies will return the first of this week from Atlantic City, where she went 10 days ago with her daughter, Miss Rahel Davies, who came back to Washington a few days ago. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Richardson Baker have as their guests the former’s brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Baker, of New Hartford, N. Y., and Utica, who will remain through this month. \ Mr. and Mrs. Louis Addison Dent, jr., of Silver Spring, Md., are being con- gratulated upon the arrival of & daugh- ter at Columbia Hospital Tuesday, April 18. Mrs. Dent was Miss Mar- guerite E. Orme. Mrs. Allen Rushton of Birmingham, Ala,; who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. David H. Blair, and Mr. Blair, re- Joined Mr. Rushton in their home yesterday. Miss Adlumia Sterrett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Dent Sterrett, has been at her home for the past week, due to the burning-of the Ethel Walker School at Simsbury, Conn. For the remainder of the year the school will be conducted at the country club and cot- tages on Fishers Island, Long Island Sound. Mr. Frank Sterrett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sterrett, also was recently at home for his Spring vacation and has Senora de Gardenas Joins Ambassador of . Spain After Illness Wife of Diplomat Returns in Time for Fete in Honor Of Cervante!. The Ambassador of Spain, Senor Don Juan de Cardenas, was joined last evening by Senora de Cardenas who was detained in New York by illness where they went for a few days’ visit. This afternoon the Ambassador and Senora de Cardenas will entertain a company of about 100 at 4:30 o'clock in commemoration of the anniversary of the death of Cervantes, which is known as “The Feast of the Lan- guages.” The host will make a short talk and will introduce Prof. Onis of Columbia University, who will make an address. Others who will make short talks will be the Ambassador of Mexico, Sencr Dr. Don Fernando Gonzalez Roa, and Prof. Rubio of Catholic < University. The guests this afternoon will include several of the Spanish-speaking officials of the State Department, and the Spanish Amer- ican diplomats in the corps in Wash- ington. The Ambassador and Senora de Car- denas wiil be hosts at dinner Friday evening in honor of the officers of the Spanish training ship El Cano which will arrive at the Navy Yard Thurs- day from New York. Additional guests will be asked for the dancing after the dinner, ‘The Ambassador cf Cuba and Senora de Cintas will entertain at dinner this evening. The Ambassador of Italy, Signor (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) Features Wome ~ _A for n MISS JANE COLLINS, Daughter of Representative and Mrs. Ross A. Collins, guest this week at West Point of Maj. Gen. and Mrs. William D. Connor. Mr. MacDonald Honored At White House Dinner British Prime Minister‘and Daughter. Miss Ishbel MacDona]d, Are Guests of President and Fir President and Mrs. Roosevelt were hosts last evening at the first state dinner given by them since the inaugu- ration, more than a month ago. The dinner was in honor of the prime min- ister of Great Britain, Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald, and his daughter, Miss Ishbel MacDonald, who are guests at the White House over Sunday. Others in the company were the Vice President and Mrs. John N. Garner, the Ambas- sador of Great Britain and Lady Lindsay, Sir Robert and Lady Van- stittart, and Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, who accompanied the prime minister and Miss MacDonald; the Minister counselor of the British embassy, Mr. F. D. G. Osborne; the com- mercial counselor and Mrs. H. O. Chalkley, the financial counselor and | Mrs. T. K. Bewley of the embassy staff, Mr. Charles Howard-Smith, Mr. J. Al Barlow, Mr. A. E. Overton and Mr. Michael Wright, who came to Washing- | ton with the prime minister. ‘The officials of this Government who attended the dinner last evening were the Secretary of State and Mrs. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of War and Mrs. George H. Dern, the Attorney General and Mrs. Homer Cummings, the Post- master General, Mr. James A. Farley; the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, the Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Harold I. Ickes; the Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, the Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. Daniel C. Roper, the Secre- tary of Labor, Miss Frances Perkins; Senator and Mrs. Key Pittman, Sen- ator and Mrs. Charles L. McNary, Rep- resentative and Mrs. Joseph W. Byrnes, Representative Sam D. McReynolds and his daughter, Miss Margaret McRey- nolds; the Undersecretary of State and Mrs. William Phillips, the Assistant Secretary of State, Dr. Raymond Moley; Mrs. Robert W. Bingham, wife of the newly appointed United States Ambas- sador to the Court of St. James; the secretary to the President, Mr. Louis McH. Howe; the chief of the Protocol Division of the State Department and Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins, Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the Presi- dent; Mr. and Mrs. Frederic A. Delano; Mrs. George St. George, house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robbins; Mrs. Cur- tis B. Dall, daughter of the hosts, and their son, Mr. James Roosevelt; Princess Te Ata, Miss Mayris Chaney, Mr. Edward Fox, Miss Marguerite Le Hand, secretary to the President, and his naval and military aides, Capt. Wal- ter H. Vernou and Mrs. Vernou, and Col. Campbell B. Hodges. ‘The table, laid in the state dining room, formed a horseshoe and was set with the gold service of the White House, the cut glass with the coat of arms of the United States sparkling m\ the soft light of candles and low mounds of Columbia roses, narcissus poeticus and maiden hair fern making a table of much beauty. Following the dinner the guests as- sembled in the east room, where Prin- cess Te Ata and Miss Mayris Chaney gave & number of dances, the Marine st Lady. Band Orchestra, which played during the dinner, furnishing the music for them. The prime minister will have break- | fast this morning with the Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir Ronald Lindsay, who has invited a nmber of newspaper men to meet him. Later the Ambas- sador and L:dy {indsay will entertain |a company informally at luncheon for | Miss MacDonald while her father ac- | companies the President for a sail on | the Potomac, weather permitting, or & :pncnlc in the country. Miss MacDonald will leave Washing- ton Tuesday and will visit at New Haven, Conn., where she will spend the day with Miss Frances Walls, joining her father in New York in time to sail Wednesday aboard the Berengeria for | England. ‘The closeness of the prime minister | and his daughter was shown to a few of the newspaper women yesterday when they were leaving after the con- ference with Miss MacDonald. The prime minister came through the long corridor on the secorid floor and to the west end, which by means of the screen has been made into a sitting room. He promptly received applause and smiled and greeted the group with a cheery (Continued on Page 7, Column 3. | Mrs. Hughes biscominues Receptions for Season Mrs. Hughes, wife of the Chief Jus- tice, has discontinued her days at home for the remainder of the season. White House Hospitality For Noted Visitors President and Mrs. Roosevelt will entertain the former premier of France, M. Edouard Herriot, at tea tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock and Wednesday they will be hosts at dinner for the prime minister of Canada, Mr. Bennett, and M. Herriot. Ambassador Bingham and | Family Sail for England ‘The newly appointed United States Ambassador to Great Britain and Mxs. Robert W. Bingham, who are at the Mayflower for 'a’shorf stay, will go to New York Tuesday and will sail that evening aboard the Leviathan for the former’s new post in London. Foreign Delegates Guests of Mrs. Dennis Four of the foreign delegates in Wash- ington for the Annual Congress of the National Society D. A. R., will be guests of Mrs. William F. Dennis at the lunch. eon she is giving today in honor of Mrs William Russell Magna, president gen- eral of the society. They are Mrs. Brun- dage, regent, and Mrs Kenway, vics regent, who came from London, and Miss Adlaide de Groote, regent, and Miss Ada Howard Johnson, vice regent of the French chapter,