Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1933, Page 29

Capital’s Social Highlights SOCIETY SECTION he ,%mtflag Star, WASHINGTON, MRS. ARTHUR STURGIS, Whose charming garden will be open to visitors tomorrow in the Chevy Chase garden tour. —Underwood_Photo. Great Outdoors Claims Society of Washington With Numerous Events Mrs. Roosevelt to Be Hostess at Party This Week for World War Veterans—Garden party Wednesday. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. The great outdoors claimed Washing- ton society last week, garden parties, garden tours, a long trek into Colonial Virginia, small and interesting hogse shows and other events in the open requiring the sole attention of daylight hours, while even dinner parties closed with a stroll outdoors and were as in- formal as official or diplomatic dinner parties can be. week holds the same lure for | and chief of the events will be- the outdoor party for veterans of the World War Thursday afternoon, when Mrs. Roosevelt will put forth every ef- fort for the comfort and happiness of her visitors. Again the First Lady in the Land will be the center of a big outdoor party when on Wednesday the estate of Admiral and Mrs. Grayson,.on | Wisconsin avenue, will be opened for a garden card party, with the usual number of side attractions at this sea- son, includin, giced tea, chilled viands and fruit punch. The Woman's Demo- cratic Club is at the helm. In writing White House history in the future a delightful story will be that of Mrs. Roosevelt's outdoor at home last week, when hatless, wearing a charming dress of blue with deeper blue plaitings, guests, made witty, chatty conversation and later visited the striped marquees from which simple refreshments were served. One of the President's aides stood by and made introductions, and while some others were in evidence they did less social marshalling than of old and seemed to enjoy themselves as much as did the visitors. The Marine Band, in gay unt to be sure, and MI¥. guests and friends assisted visitors less used to the spitality to the booths for 5. But Wednesday was the ter day for al fresco engagements First Lady. She made the to Stratford, the restortd home of the Lees; took & Betty Washington Lewls' home of Mary Wash- m of Gen. Washington stopped at Fredericksburg and visited t offices of President Monroe, many historic treasures nd. returning to Washington she stop- at the Cethedral Close, where was the charmingly arranged ¢ for the benefit of the was there velt's in ng President’s refre red 1 for the pilgrimage ancestral into the qua wherei in gar House of Mercy It was at Stratford where Mrs. Roose- vels stopped for luncheon and she and Mrs. Garner, wife of the Vice President, sat down with the viands spread before them, ate heartily while workmen en- gaged on the restoration of the man- ston looked over the garden wall and for the first time in their lives saw a First Lady and Second Lady dine Mrs. Roosevelt carried many extra luncheons alo her guests and newspa Wi ter the P on progress par e with for her and daugh- aming off tomac and in Chesapecake B: nple ship Ilroquois, accom- panied by relatives and friends, Mrs Roosevelt is up in New York filling a dozen important engagements. Yes- terday she saw her son row in the Groton crew and tomorrow night she will attend the May ball staged for the | benefit of unemployed women, for whom a rest house has been provided through her efforts. She is to be the center of a spectacular reception there, with a guard of honor from the famous 7th Regiment, New York National Guard, winding up with a midnight supper where she will occupy a regimental chair inscribed with the name of her father, James Roosevelt. President his 11, are st ‘Today the Ambassador of Spain and she stood and smiled at her | Spanish in the universities of the Cap- | ital—those who are fnstructing and those who are studying Spanish. It | is the suggestion of the Ambassador that & branch of the well known Insti- tutas de Espagnas of Columbia Univer- sity be established here. The Minister of Sweden and Mme. Bostrom are at home at the legation to the Swedish | colony in Washington and tomorrow | night, helping to start the week diplo- matically, will be dinner guesis, with the Minister of Switzerland and Mme. Peter as hosis. — e Luncheons and Dmners | Engage Socxety Folk; Mrs. Charles P. Kindleberger, wife of Rear Admiral Kindleberger, U. 5. N., | will entertain at Juncheon on Friday, | | May 19. | | Mr. snd Mrs. Demarest Lioyd were | hosts to a company at dinner last eve- | ning in their home, on R street. Mrs. James Griswold Wentz will en- | tertain a company at dinner Thursday | evening. Mrs. Wentz will close her house here the first week in June and | 20 to her place at Newport for the early part of the season. Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of | Assistant Secretary of the Nav Mrs. Latrobe Roosevelt, was hostess to | & company of young people at dmner‘ last evening. | Mrs. James ¥. Curtis gave a dinner party last evening in her home, at 1925 | F street. ! Mrs. John Jacob Stahl has cards out for & tea Thursday afternoon from 4:30 to 6 o'clock at 1940 Biitmore street,! when a program of music will be given. Tablet to Old Post Road Placed at Rippon Lodge . and’ Mrs. Wade Hampton Ellis will be hosts at tea this afternoon fol- lowing the ceremony of the unveiling of & tablet by the Susan Revieve Hetzel Chapter of the N. 5. D. A. R. to mark the old King's Highway, which was the. post road from Mount Vernon to| Williamsburg and which winds through | Rippon Lodge. the estate of Mr. and | Mrs. Ellis overlooking the Potomac The old “corduroy” road is plainly dis- cernible and is among many histctical treasures which Mr. and Mrs. Ellis have found since they purchased this, the first home of Mr. Ellis' ancestors in this country Col. and Mrs. Coates Given Farewell Party at Post Col. Harry N. Cootes, U. S. A, re- tiring commandant of Fort Mryer, and Mrs. Cootes will go to his new post in Baltimore Wednesd: Before their de- parture the officers of the 3d Cavalry, the 16th Pield Artillery and the 10th Cavalry will give a farewell garrison review in honoj of Col. Cootes Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock on the lower driil field at Fort Myer. The review will be followed by a tea dance in the post hop room. Col. John Kenyon, who will succeed Col. Cootes, will arrive in Waghington June 1, accompanied by Mrs. Kenyon and their family, | —_ \Las! of Luncheone at | Conqrcssxonal Club ‘The last of the series of luncheons l!‘ the Congressional Club this season will | be given Tuesday afternoon, and many | reservations have been made by miem- bers who will entertain guests. Among +those who will be hoslesses are Mrs. . Clarence C. Dill, president of the club; Mrs. George W. Norris, Mrs. Harry L. Englebright, Mrs. Malcolm C. Tarver, | | Mrs. Omar L. Leatherwood and Mrux James H. Patton. A large number wfl]] @enora de Cardenas will hold a re-|be seated at the non-hostess table, 32 ception for students and professors of | alresdy having made reservations, L3 : and Mrs. D. C, SUN MRS. FRANKLIN D. JONES, Wesley Heights matron; her daughter Dorothy and her sister, Mrs. Helen Stark, left. / ” L ~—Harris, Ewing Photo. MRS. RUDOLPH MAX KAUFFMANN, Whose charming garden at Greenacre, her home, No. 1 West Melrose street, will be open for the Chevy Chase garden pilgrimage tomorrow, —Underwood_Photo NDAY MORN NG, MAY MRS. WHITMAN CROSS, sts CAROLINE JACKSON AND MRS. RICHARD FAY JACKSON In the garden of Mrs. Cross, included in the open gardens | at Chevy Chase tomorrow. 21, 1933. J dtru 00d_Phote. TL!I'IUS}‘I Ambassador Returns From MCX]CO To New York Tuesday Ambasudor and Senora Je Instlm'o de la E!Panas. will arrive in New York Tuesday from Mexico, where he has been for a fortnight. The Ambassador ! his government at Mex- ico. He will be met in New York by the second secretary of the embassy, Mr. Bulent, who will go to New York tomorrow. ‘The Ambassador of Spain and Senora de Cardenas will be hosts this after- noon at 4 o'clock, when a Washington chapter of the Instituto de las Espanas which recently was founded in the Na- tional Capital, will be inaugurated. The Ambassador of Italy, Signor Augusto Rosso, issued invitations for dinner Wednesday evening. has The Ambassador of Brazil and Senhora de Lima e Silva will entertain at din- ner this evening in compliment to the Brazilian delegates who came to Wash- ington for conferences with the Presi- | dent. The Minister of Gwitzerland and Mme. Peter will entertain at dinner to- morrow evening ‘The retiring Minister and Mme. Radefl will June 3, aboard the Rex, their home in Bulearia. Aflt a brief vacation, the Minister will up his duties n the foreign office of Bulgaria sail Saturday en route to take ‘The counselor of the G em- bassy and Frau Leitner have leased Valley View, the Summer home of Mr. Peter A. Drury, on the moun- tain above Bluemont, Va. for the Summer season and will move there early in June. ‘The military attache of the British | embassy and Mrs. Day will entertain a company at dinner this evening in their home in Chevy Chase. The air attache of the Italian em- ! bassy, Comdr. Sbernadori, spent Thurs- day in Washington and returned to | New York Friday for another week's | stay. The fifid counselor gé % Italian 4 5) 0 Leonard Hoover Weddmg Held in Chevy Chase Home o AR | Miss Catherine Pendleton Hoover Becomes Bride 0{ Navfll O&Cer at Brllllant Ceremony. Miss Catherine Pendleton Hoover and Ensign Robert Craven Leonard, U. §. N., son of Mrs. O. T. Leonard of Greens- boro, N. C., were married yesterday aft- ernoon in the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George P. Hoover, at 15 West Lenox street, Chevy Chase, | Md. Rev. George Fiske Dudley, St. Stephen'’s the Church, at 4 o'clock and was followed The ceremony was performed by rector of and Incamnation by an informal reception for those who which included members of the two families and inti- witnessed the ceremony, mate friends. The bride was given in marriage by her father and wore the wedding gown worn by her sister, Mrs. Warren Irving Glover, jr., formerly Miss Elizabeth Vir- ginia Hoover. The gown is of antique ivory satin, fashioned on long lines with full sleeves to the elbow and tight to the wrists. The long train is of satin and her tulle veil becomingly arranged and held by orange blossoms. She car- ried the conventional shower bouquet Mrs. Warren Irving Glover, jr., was matron of honor for her r and another sister, Miss Louise Gautier Hoo= ver, was maid of honor. Mrs. Glover wore mousseiine de scic in yellow brown and orange and a brown hat. She carried an old-fashioned bouquet of flowers of various colors. Miss Hoo- ver was in blue and yellow figured chiffon, mace with puffed sleeves and long satin sash. Her blue hat had a | small brim and she carriéd an old- fashioned bouquet like that of Mrs. Glover. Ensign Albert Sidney Major, U. 8. N., on leave from the U. S. S. Lexington | at Cong Beach, Calif., was best man. Mrs. Hoover, mother of th> bride, who | received with the bride and bridegroom | after the ceremony, wore a gown of flower chiffon, trimmed with black lace. Later in the day Ensign and Mrs. | Leonard started on a wedding trip, the bride wearing a tnvfllxt suit of blue mmumn;«m--mm | of her goddaughter, | violet costume, with a hat to matehl and a swagger coat, and her small hat | was of blue, trimmed with white. They will motor to the Pacific Coast, where Ensign Leonard will join his ship, the U. S. S. Lexington, and they' will be | at home in Long Beach, Calif. Mr. Charles Edgar Winn of Norfolk, | Va., announces the marriage of his sis- ter, Miss Dolores Winn, to Mr. William Hamilton Sands of that city. The wed- ding, which was attended by the im- mediate families, took place yesterday At noon at the home of the bride’s brother-in-law and sister, Dr. and Mrs. Clem C. Williams in Chevy Chase, D. C. Dr. J. Hillman Hollister of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church performed the ceremony. Mrs. Gooper, widow of the Jate Repre- | sentative Hen'¥ Allen Cooper, recently attended the wedding in Waupun, Wis., Miss Charlotte Pradt, daughter of the former Assistant Attorney General and Mrs. Louis A.| Pradt, to Mr. Marshall Smith of Osh- kosh, Wis. The wedding-took place in | the Protestant Episcopal Church, where | _the bride's family has worshipped since pioneer day: | Easter lilies, white snapdragons and palms were used in the effective decora- tions in the church, and at the recep- tion which follcwed at the home of the bride's parents, the 'Engagement of Miss Eleanor | | Humphrey: Mlfi! Caro]lne Schulz And John S. Service | To Wed in Shanghai/ Edwards and William| Howard, Jr., Also An-| nounced. | York. He is expected back in Washing- ' | General Farley will go to Chicago the | | minority leader of the H:use, and Mrs Features for Women MRS. H. H. SEMMES ©On'the terrace of her garden on Primrose street, Chevy Chase, foremost in arzanging for the tour there tomorrow. ~—Underwood Photo. James A. Farley Spends Week End in New York Postmaster General Is Expected Back Tuesday or Wean.Jay—_\Vj“ ‘Attend Opening of Chicago Fain ‘The Postmaster General, Mr. James | Department, Mr. Herbert Feis, will be | A. Farley, is spendifig the week end with | joined tomorrow by Mrs, Feis, who has Mrs. Parley and their family in New been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stanley Brown, in their home ton Tuesday or Wednesday. Postmaster | on Long Island for a week or 10 days. Judge S. W. Burkett and his daugh- ter, Miss Mary Lucy Burkett, arrived yesterday to attend the National Bap- tist Convention,to which they are dele- gates from the Headland Avenue Bap- tist Church in Dotham, Ala. Judge Burkett and his daughter will remain a week or two with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Chapman in their home, 5307 Eighth | street northwest. Mcs. Stephen O. Fuqua, wife of Maj. Gen. Stephen O. Puqua, U. S. A, ac- Snell have with them over Sunday their companied by Mrs. David Blair, Mrs. daughter, Miss Sara Louise Snell, who is Royal Johnson and Mrs. Willlam An- a student at Vassar. Miss Snell came drews, is spending several days in At- to Washington to attend the wedding lantic City. yesterday of Miss Catherine Hoover and | Col. and Mrs. H. C. Pillsbury, who Mr. Robert Page Leonard and will Ye- | have arrived from San Francisco, have turn to her studies at Vassar tonight. taken an apartment at 2400 Sixteenth street. Col. Pillsbury has been assigned to duty at Walter Reed. Col. and Mrs. Presley M. Rixey have with them at the Parkwood the former's mother, Mrs. Rixey, widow of the late Rear Admiral Presley M. Rixey, prior to her departure for Caldwell, N. J., to end of the week to represent the Presi- | dent at the opening of the Century of Progress Exposition. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired, will closs his home on I street June 7 and will go to his Summer home at Beverley Farms, Mass, for the season. Representative Bertrand H. Snell Representdtive and Mrs. James W. Wadsworth will give up their apartment | in the Anchorage the first of June and | will move into their own home at 2800 | Woodland drive, which has been oc- cupied by Col. and Mrs, M. Robert Guggenheim through the Winter and The commandant of the Engineer | School and Mrs. Edward Hugh Schulz of Fort Humphreys, Va., announce the engagement of their daughter, Caroline | Edward, to Mr. John Stewart Service, | son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Service of | Shanghai, China. Both Miss Schulz and Mr. Service | were graduated from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohlo, in the class of 1931. Mr. | Service also successfully passed the foreign service examination for the consular service in January, 1933. He is at present in business in China. Miss Schulz made her debut at Fort Hum- phreys in November, 1931. She is an accomplished equestrienne, a tennis en- thusiast and a lover of the water. She has been with her parents at Fort since leaving college. The wedding of Miss Schulz and Mr. Service will take place in Shanghai, China, in the Fall. Lieut. Col. Robert, O. Edwards, U. §. A, retired, of Washington, D. C., an-| nounces the engagement of his daugh- ter, Miss Eleanor Campbell Edwards, to Mr. Willam Henry Howard, jr. New York City. son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.| Toward of Indlanapolis, Ind. Miss Ed- wards is a graduate of the Marlborough School in Les Angeles and the Finch School in New York City. She has spent the past two years travelling in Europe. | spend the Summer with her nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Earl White- horn. Col. and Mrs. Robert Guggenheim have closed the house at 2800 Woodland drive, which they occupied through the Winter season, and have gone to At- lantic City, where they are staying at the Marlborough-Blenheim, before re- turning to their Summer home on Long Island. Ma]. and Mrs. McKee Dunn of Wash- ington have taken up their residence at | their Colonial estate, Gramercy Farm, | at Hot Springs, Va.. for the season. Lieut. Comdr. and Mrs. Andrew C. McFall and their sons, Andrew C. Mc- Fall. jr. and Dodge McPFall, will close their home. 3512 Rodman street, Wed- nesday and leave for the West Coast, where Comdr. McFall has been orderéd as fleet aviation officer on the staff of | Rear Admiral David Sellers of the U. S. 5. Pennsylvania. They will go Representative and Mrs. Terry Carpen- . P:!f,",“ Onad. |ter of Nebraska have as their guest| Miss Peggie Gibbins, daughter of Ool. until the close of Congress the latter’s and Mrs. Henry Gibbins, will have as & mother. Mrs. George Corruthers of guest for some time Miss Genevieve Sccttsbluff, Nebr. ird of Salt Lake City, Utah, who will rrive in the Cxpiul Thursday. The Undersecretary of State, Mr.| William Phillips, who joined Mrs. Phil- lips and the younger members of their family Friday in their home in Boston, | will return -to Washington Tuesday. early Spring. Representative and Mrs. Wadsworth purchesed the house on Woodland drive when their home at 800 Sixteenth street was sold to make way for the Hay-Adams House, which bears the name of the two famous Ilm- ilies whose homes {ormerly occupied that | | site. The old home of mpresenumew and Mrs. Wadsworth on Sixteenth street | was built by her father, the late John | Hay, former Secretary of State, and im- mediately adjoined the home of the Iate | Henry Adams on H street, the two houses being built of the same materials and of similag architecture. Representative and Mrs. Harry W. Musselwhite have as their guest over the week end at the Broadmoor Mrs. Katherine D. Holecomb of Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Holcomb has | recently returned from Paris, where she was for four years the head of the American Women’s University Club, Moonlxght Crulse on Potomac Tuesday Eve | [Popular with members of the younger receiving party | Mr. Howard js a graduate of Wabash | Mrs Robert Patterson Lamont, wife of | set are the moonlight trips on the stood before a scrcen of gay colored | | College in Indiana and is a member of { the former Secretary of Commerce, Will | cruiser docked at Hains Point. An in- Spring flowers, 2.ud yellow roses were used throughout the house. ‘The bride was given in marriage by her father and wore a gown of white satin and carried calla lilies, At the reception the couple were as- sisted by Mrs. Cooper, who wore a and amethyst jewelry which had been her mother’s, and Mrs. Pradt, who was in a rcse lace dress with accessories to match. Mr. Smith and his bride have taken an apartment at Oshkosh until their new home is completed in the Autumn. The bride was born in° Washington when her father was Assistant Attorney | the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. He is | engaged in business in New York City. The wedding will take place ‘June 21 at St. Bartholomew’s in New York City in the 4:40 o'clock, with & at Sherry's. Miss Dorothy Virginia Garrett, Penn Yan, ment deley n*‘ close her apartment in the Weswhester teresting littl € at the end of the week and will sail| . © IR Yk WElbe e Wednesday, May 31, aboard the Presl- board Tuesday evening includes Miss dent Roosevelt for Europe. Mrs. La- | Dorothy Kurtz, daughter of Representa- mont will spend a short time in Dublin | tive and Mrs. J. Banks Kurtz; Miss ‘“‘ in :;mt:';“ and will ud‘:: P:;‘: ::’ Ymelda Chavez, daughter of Represent- ks t‘, s m""'m‘": ‘mmm““ny she | Ative and Mrs. Dennis Chavez; Miss Mal returned a few days ago from a fm_:s;;ku, ‘daughter of the Federal -radio night’s stay in her former home in | commissioner and Mrs. Eugene O, -|Evanston and expects (o return (o gykes; Miss Peggy Barker, Miss Cather- ‘Washington in the Autumn. Mrs. Bingham, wife of former Sena- tor Hiram Bingham, has gone to her Summer home in Connecticut. for the colm McCormick, Mr. Herman King, ' o Mr. Girard Gilfoyle, Mr. Stanley Miller umssu- - |ine Minnix, Mrs. Minnie Briggs, Mrs. | Neitah King, Mrs. Virginia Belt Wag- gaman, Mr. Wilmer Savage, Mr. Mal-