Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1934, Page 37

Capital’s Social High Lights Part 3-—10 Pages Diplomatic Families Illustrate Yuletime Customs of Their Native Land, Upper left: with Christmas carols. The children of Rumania seranade their elders Mme. Florescu, wife of the counselor of the Rumanian Legation, with their children, Alexander, Radu and Yvonne, present a picture typical of @ Rumanian home during the Christmas season. Radu is shown holding one of the Stars of Bethlehem carried at homes throughout Rumania. the traditional singing in the Upper right: The Christmas iree, surrounded. by presents. 1s popular-in Italy, and Signora di Santa Orsola, wife of the naval attache of the Italian Embassy, and their daughters, Anna and Francisca, make a scene characteristic of homes in Italy on Christmas morning. fil—ite House Christmas Spirit Prevails Typical Of the Am rican Family President and Mrs. Roosevelt Surrounded by Friends and Relatives, and Everywhere BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. Not in years, if ever before, has the | White House put on such a gay and brilliant celebration. as this season, when the President and Mrs. Roose- velt are surrounded by friends and until the living portion of the mansion fairly bulges. Nor has it ever been lovelier in its decoration of | Christmas. trees, Christmas greens and reds and myriads of gay colored pack- ages of every known dimensions. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, the neighbor of the | President and Mrs. Roosevelt at their | Hyde Park home and now house- | keeper at the White House, has all | her menus made up for a week of | feasting, with a care to catering to| Gifts and Yule Trces- Is Good Cheer. | formal pomp that just pleases the young, and when such nice parties carry on for a few years one Srows uneasy, lest in this city of social changes, something m: divert them. With a city full of students, boys and girls and some a little older, it is nice to single out such hostesses as Miss Elizabeth Howry who is enter- taining a lovely Mississippi girl, Miss Ann Sullens, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Frederick Sullens of Jacksonville, | Miss., who will be with her until after the holidays. Miss Sullens is a Junior League girl and next Sunday Miss Howry will give a luncheon for her the appetites of the younger members | and for Miss Christine Long, daughter of the family, who dote upon herl cookies and like goodies. . In this won- of Ambassador and Mrs. Breckinridge Long. The following Sunday there derful setting- there will be dining, | will be a luncheon with Miss Sullens dancing and visiting until one's head | as guest of honor. o fairly swims to think of it, and yet it | e Parties for the young and very is only an enlarged scene in the life | of a simple American family, l."fl‘ml predominate for the next 10 { days, and not until Congress, with its With a wise thought the municipal | blast of oratory and general excite- Christmas tree will be lighted in | ment, enlists the attention of the more Lafayette Square to be seen from all | sedate citizen will the debutantes sub- the north front windows of the Presi- | side into the regular social routine. dent’s house and one can picture him taking a few quiet moments now and then ‘0 look over the way at its sparkling lights. President and Mrs. Coolidge lighted the first growing Christmas tree, planted in Treasury Square, & real New England spruce being transplanted there for the pur- pose, and as President and Mrs. Hoo- ver continued the custom there is a hope that it may continue as.have 50 many other beautiful traditions of the season. Nor is it just this one tree that stands ablaze for the Christmas sea- son, for all over the city the gay lights glow befcre private homes, in public parks and hard-by institutions of various kinds, One of the hand- somest ‘rees always glitters from the heights of Mount Alto Hospital for invalid war patients and from hun- dreds of door yards gleam the decora- tions. Christmas music adds its charm and in no other city in the country is so diversified a Christmas program possible. The Latin America embassies and legations carry out their quaint customs and from all parts of the world t! irth of Christ is celebrated. The Orientals in the city, for the most, adopt the American custom and as in former years the Chinese Lega- tion will put on a real United States program. Christmas night the gay young folk who have dined enfamile or with friends tended teas and cocktail parties and what not will meet in the Mayflower ball. room for one of the most delightful and refreshing balls of the Winter, when the cadets and midshipmen and their girl partners dance until supper time at midnight and again until almost dawn. This annual dence has & nice touch of in~ 4 Many of the girls of this season have been invited to the diplomatic recep- tion at the White House the night of January 3, when the sons of the Presi- dent and their young cousins and others will be centers of attraction. Among the events of the week for the young and younger set will be a dance at the Shoreham the night of December 27, the following night will see another youthful set-dancing at the Sulgrave Club #nd yet another dance at the National ‘Womer's Country Club the night of December 29. Tomorrow afternoon Mrs. Grace Kendall Angus will introduce - her daughter, Miss Betty Angus, at a reception and tea at the Mayflower and Capt. and Mrs. Paul E. Dampman will give a debut party Wednesday afternoon for their daughter, Miss Marjorie Jane Dampman. And so on and so on through the entire week with something happening - during almost évery hour and long after day and night meet. Arts Club of Wuh;ngton Plans Gay. Christmas ‘The tea at the Arts Club this after- noon, at the opening of the exposition of paintings by members of the club, introduces a week marked by Christ- mas festivity, including Christmas breakfast, which is being made a yearly feature, and the Christmas dinner dance Thursday evening, De- cember 27. Many parties are being entertained for the dinner and dance Thursday, when an attractive musical program will ‘be rendered during the dinner hour by a string orchestra in charge of Mr, Walter 8. Studdiford, ) SOCIETY SECTION he Sundwy Star \WASHINGTON, D. C, Birds share generously in Christmas customs in Sweden. Delicacies for their feathered friends are placed by the families of that country on the ground and in a hearth broom fastened Miss Christine Ekengren, daughter of Mme. Ekengren and the late Minister of Sweden, and Miss Christina Beck-Friis, daughter of the counselor of the Swedish Legation and Baroness Beck-Friis, pose in Swedish costumes to to an elevated point. illustrate this appealing tradition. Official Family Finding Present Season Busy One Capital Debutahtes Will Be Much Feted During the Holidays Dinner Dances and Other Functions Are on the Calendar, Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Marlatt will entertain, at a dinner dance at their home in- honor of their 'debu- tante daughter, Miss Dorothy Mar- latt, January 2. Miss Helen McKenna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Royal T. McKenna, will be guest_of hopor at a dance to be given for her young friends Friday at the Mayflower by her grandmother, Mrs. David Stewart Hendrick, Miss McKenna made her formal debut “at the Bachelors’. Cotillion in Baltimore and many of her young friends from there are expected here for. the dance. Miss Marjorie make- her debu Dampman will Jane at 8 tea dance to be [Contimusd on Page 3, Colugn 3] + [ their stockings. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1934, In Holland the children put out their little wooden shoes for Santa Claus in place of hanging up Dainty Vera von Breugel Douglas, daughter of the counselor of the Netherlands Lega- tion and Baroness von Breugel Douglas, portrays the custom in her fetching Dutch costume. Secretaiy and Mrs. Morficntl’mu Are in New York for the Holiday—Attorney General and Mrs. Cummings Entertaining Guests. The Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr., and their family are now at their home in New York. Secretary Morgenthau will re- turn to Washington after Christmas, Mrs. Morgenthau joining him a few days later. - The Attorney General’ and - Mrs: Homer S. Cummings have as their guests Mrs. Bartow S. Weeks, Mrs. John Charles Turner and Mr. John Murphy of New York. Mr. and Mrs. J. Bruce Kremer will entertain at din- ner this evening for the visitors, and Chyistzas day; the ] Avigrney- General and Mrs. Cummings will entertain in- formally at dinner for their guests, ‘The Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. Henry A. Wallace will have with them Christmas day the former’s sis- ter, Miss Ruth Wallace; Miss Eleanor Powell and Lieut. Comdr. Paul W. Wilson, =~ Mrs. Henry C. Wallace, mother of. the Secretary, came from Des Moines to-spend the holiday sea- son with her son and daughter-in-law, and is with them at their apartment at 2400 Sixteenth street, The of Commerce, Mr. Daniel C. Roper, will refurn to Wash- "(Continued ou Page 8, ol 47, . Luncheon and D;nner Furnictions Announced; Mrs. Swanson Guest Mrs. Stanalcy Will Be Hostess to Party on Next Friday. $ Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, will be the guest in whose honor Mrs. Standley, wife of Admiral William H. Standle; Chief of Naval Operations, will en: tertain at luncheon Friday. Admiral Standley is still in London, where he went for the naval confer- ence, and Mrs. Standley and her daughters have with them for Christ- mas and the holidays Miss Eleanor Blackburn, daughter of Rear Admiral Blackburn, on duty on the Pacific Coast, and Mrs. Blackburn. Mrs. William Howard Taft, widow of President Taft, will be hostess at Juncheon Sunday, December 30, in 4 Features for Women The exchange of gifts is a tradition in Czechoslovakia. Mile. Gladys Broz, debutante daughter of the first secretary of the Czechoslovakian Legation, in native attire, is shown wrapping presents to send to friends in her home country. —Underwood Photos. In Diplomatic Circle Ambassador of Argentina and Senora de Espfl Will Give Children's Party—Other Functions Are Announced. The Ambassador of Argentina and Senora de Espil will give a children’s party tomorrow afternoon and Tues- day- will entertain at luncheon for the members of the embassy staff. The Ambassador of Poland, Mr. Stanislaw Patek, will be host at din- ner tomorrow evening, entertaining the members of the embassy staff and their wives, . —_— ‘The Ambassador of Italy, Signor Augusto Rosso, will give a dinner party tomorrow evening, when his guests ‘will be members of the em- bassy staff and their wives, The Ambassador of France and Mme. de Laboulaye will give a party Christmas afternoon for ihe children of the members of the embassy staff, ‘The Ambassador of Germany, Herr Hans Luther, will be host te the bachelor members of the embassy staff tomorrow evening, and will en- tertain all the members of the staff and their families at a Christmas 'p:.n; Wednesday afternoon at the | ‘The Ambassador of Spain and Sen- ora de.Calderon will be hosts at din- ‘Much Yule Entertaining of the embassy staff and their families. Mme. Munir, wife of the Ambassa- dor of Turkey will sail from Genoa Thursday aboard the Rex and is ex- pected to arrive in New York the sec- ond week in January. The Ambassador of Brazil and Sen- hora de Aranha will be hosts in- formally to the members of the em- bassy staff and their wives, enter- taining them tomorrow evening at dinner in the new embassy, which they recently moved into. ‘The newly appointed Ambassador of Cuba, Senor Dr. Guillermo Patter- son' y Jauregui, is still in London, where he is Ambassador of Cuba to the Court of St..James, and will come to this country early in the new year. The Ambassador has been appointed to succeed the late Senor Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling, who died a few weeks ago. The Minister of Switzerland and Mme. Peter are spending Christmas with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Georges Peter, in their Boston home. The Minister and Mme. Peter will return the middle of the _Lwnml.cohmn ) |mer tdmorzow evening for members (Continued on Page 6, Column 4) »