Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1934, Page 14

SOCIETY. SOCIETY Prcsidept and Mrs. Roosevelt Hosts to White House Staff and Their Families This Afternoon. HE President and Mrs. Roose- velt are entertaining the office staff and their families at a Christmas tree party in the | east room and later in the day will be hosts at a similar party to the household and their families. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will have a family dinner party this eve- ning, which will be followed by the singing of carols in the east room by & choral society. Mrs. Roosevelt will accompany the President when he lights the Com- | munity Christmas Tree in Lafayette | Square at 5 o'clock. Mrs. Roosevelt assisted in giving baskets to the needy for the Ceneral Union Misssion at the Fox Theater, later going to the Salva- tion Army to ascist in the distribution of gifts there. Tonight, following the carols in the east room, the President will follow his custom and read to his family Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Foreign Envoys Carry Out Traditions of Homeland Fetes. The Ambassador of Poland, Mr. Stanislaw Patek, will be host at din- | ¢ ner this evening to the members of the embassy staff and their families. The Ambassador of France and Mme. de Laboulaye will give a party this afternoon for the children of the members of the embassy staff. The Ambassador of Germany, Herr Hans Luther, will be host to the bachelor members of the embassy at dinner this evening and Wednesday will entertain all members of the staff including those employed in the offices and their families. Mrs. Couzens, wife of Senator James Couzens, will receive for the first time this Winter Thursday, Jan- | vary 10, and the remaining Thurs- days in January. Judge and Mrs. Samuel Jordan Graham, who are established in their | apartment at the Shorenam, expect to | Jeave early next month for Egypt to spend the remainder of the Winter. | They arrived recently from Paris, | where they have been living. Gen. John J. Pershing will arrive | in New York today aboard the Man- | hattan from Europe. Others return- ing to this country on the same ship are the United States Minister to Nor- way and Mrs. Hoffman Philip and the secretary to the United States FEmbassy at Mexico, Mr. John H. MacVeagh. Col. and Mrs, William Mark Con- rad, who make their home at the Shoreham, plan to spend the Christ- mas holidays in New York with the latter's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene W. Ong, at their home on Fifth avenue. Also included in the family party will be Miss Virginia Bacon Penfleld, daughter of Mrs. Ong, and the late Mr. Walter Scott Penfield, noted in- | ternational lawyer of Washington, | and grand daughter of the late Judge | William L. Penfield, formerly solicitor of the State Department. Miss Penfield, who is a student at the Spence School in New York, and still in the subdeb class, will probably be presented to society in New York, Baltimore and Washington within the next few years. Maj. Frank C. Mahin of the Army Inspector General's Department, now stationed in Boston, Mass., with his family is spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Mahin, in the Woodley Apartments. His twin deughters Margaret and Anna already have spent several weeks with their grandparents. Maj. | Mahin, after graduating at the War College, was stationed in Washing- ton three years. Lieut. and Mrs. Harold A. Brusher from West Point and Miss Hilda H. Hase from Vassar have arrived to spend the holidays with their parents, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. William F. Hase, at 1868 Columbia road. Bishop, | daughter of Gen. and Mrs. Percy P. | Bishop, has arrived at the Martinique to spend the holidays with her parents. Miss Bishop is a student at the Oldfield’s School at Glen Coe, Md. Mr. Washburne Wright of New ‘York is spending the Christmas holi- days with his mother, Mrs. Hamilton ‘Wright, in her home on Sheridan Circle. Miss Angus Presented At Tea This Afternoon. Mrs. Grace Kendall Angus is pre- senting her daughter, Miss Betty Angus, at a reception and tea dance this afternoon in the grand ball room of the Mayflower. Miss Angus will be assisted by Miss Dorothy Letts, Miss Margaret Clarke, Miss Jane Ramseyer, Miss Peggy Mc- Neale, Miss Jane Culbertson, Miss Mathilde Bruce Rodger, Miss Mary Winifred Brown and Miss Betty Marsh. Assisting Mrs. Angus will be Mrs. F. Dickinson Letts, Mrs. C. William Ramseyer, Mrs. William S. Culbert- son, Mrs. Wilson Compton, Mrs. R. H. Van Nest, Mrs. Wilhelm Kretching, Mrs. Joseph Herbert, jr.; Mrs. F. A. Kendall, jr., of Philadelphia; Mrs. Howard Roberts and Mrs. Ernest H. Van Fossan. A song “Roses in Bud,” composed especially for the occasion by Mr. John Kendall of Pittsburgh, Pa. uncle of the debutante, will be played by the orchestra during the reception. Miss Angus will wear a satin frock Miss Margaret Calvert | are spending the holidays with Mrs. |'S. C. Baker at her home in Lyon | Washington, of an aquamarine shade of blue, made with a slight train and a fitted jacket with long sleeves having puffs at the top. She will carry an arm bouquet of pink roses. Mrs. Angus will wear a black velvet gown made on simple lines with a slight train and gardenias forming a border at the neckline. Mrs. Georgia H. Harries, widow of Gen. Harries, and her mother, Mrs. M. Curtis of Detroit, after a delightful motor trip over the Southern routg | where they stopped to visit relatives in Arizona, have taken a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel at Beverly Hills, Calif,, for the season. Mr. Oscar T. Crosby and his daugh- ter, Mrs. Crosby Miller, were joined at the Fairfax by Miss L. M. Bouligny, Mrs. Miller’s aunt, who came last week from Warrenton, Va. and will go to New York today with Mr. Crosby and Mrs. Miller for Christmas. Mr. Crosby will sail for England this week. Miss Sarah Holcombe of Hsrtford.‘ | Conn., has come to Washington m[ | several weeks with her brother, . George A. Holcombe, at the Mar- tinique. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Armat have been joined by their sons, Mr. Brooke Armat and Mr. Thomas Arm; ., at the Fairfax for the Christmas holidays. Mrs. Chester A. Amos of Alexan- dria, Va., will be hostess at a dinner p;;nrty at the Shoreham Thursday eve- ning. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Harris Wallace are at the Hotel Dennis in Atlantic City for a short stay. Mrs. Hazel D. Dodge will enmulnl a family party at Chfistmas dinner at the Shoreham tomorrow. Miss Brown Back From Short Visit in Virginia. Miss Charlotte Ashby Brown, debu- tante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ashby Brown, who was in Elkton, Va., visiting Mr. and Mrs. Loring Cover, | returned to Washington yesterday in time to attend the tea which Mrs, Eli Bauford Smith and Mrs. James Conard gave in her honor yesterday. Mrs. Hobart Hawkins is passing the Christmas holidays with relatives in Kalamazoo, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Shimmers of Newberry, Mich., are the guests of Mrs. Shimmers parents, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Brown of Monroe street, for the holidays. Miss Alice Taylor and her brother, Mr. Robert Taylor of Atlanta, Ga., Park, Va. Mrs. James Talton Turner of San Francisco, Calif, and her daughter, Miss Florion Turner, are established in their apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel for the Winter season. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Freas will give a dance Friday for their school- girl daughter, Helen Elizabeth, in their home, on the old Georgetown road. Mr. and Mrs. Leo J. O'Neill of Vir- ginia Highlands, Va.,, with Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sullivan and family, Mr. Philip Sullivan and Miss Vera Sullivan of Boston, Mass., who have been their guests for the past 10 days, motored Saturday to Philadelphia, where they will spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cronin of that city. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Chapman and and Mrs. John J. Edwards of have arrived at Hotel Everglades, Miami, for their Winter season visit in Florida. Miss Irma Von Lacky of Aurora Hills, Va., with Miss Cleo Gosser of Washington, left Saturday for New York, where they will spend the Christmas holiday. Miss Stein Honor Guest Of University Women’s Associution. Much interest is being shown in the address which will be given by Miss Gertrude Stein Sunday evening, De- cember 30, before the members of the American Association of Univer- sity Women. Among those who have When good friends get together during this festive season... they’ll make for this mod- erne, intimate cocktail room (the smartest in town) ‘where drinks, music and con- versation delightfully blend. oy = ARITON STRECIS HOTEL CARLTON THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1934, CHARMING DEBUTANTE MISS LOUISE WALLER, Who was presented to society at a reception Friday aftesnoon given by her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Absalom Waller. She is shown in the gown of white tulle and trimmed with ermine tails which she wore at her debut. made reservations at the club house at 1634 I street northwest are Mrs. Howard G. Nichols, Mrs. Richard Hogue, Mrs. Louis W. Austin, Mrs. Frank W. Ballou, Mrs. Alvin Barber, Miss Anna Pearl Cooper, Mrs, Wilson Compton, Mrs. William L. Corbin, Miss Evelyn Davis, Miss Isabel du Bois, Mrs. Lynn R. Edminster, Miss Elizabeth Eastman, Mrs. Karl Fen- | ning, Dr. A. Frances Foye, Miss Anna —Underwood Photo. Mrs. John Jay O'Connor, Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell, Major Julia Stimson, Dr. Margaret Stroh, Miss Ethel Summy, Mrs. Horace G. Torbert and Miss Alberta Walker. ‘Tentative plans are being made for a buffet supper to follow the lecture. Separate reservations may- be made for lecture and supper. ‘The second of a series of dances D. Halberg, Mrs. Genevieve Forbes | under the auspices of the Herndon Herrick, Mrs. James McClintock, Miss Ruby Nevins, Mrs. Edwin G. Nourse, | Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, will | be held Friday evening in Thompson's ‘@Chrigtmas Breetings aAnd Best Wighes Dulin & Martin @onnerticut Aue. & “L” St * Hall. Mr. Ramsey Bready and Mr. Hirst Milhollen are in charge of ar- Hostesses onists. The play, requiring a cast of 20 actors, was acted entirely in French for the eve-iwith Miss Phoebe Cummings in the Ramsey Bready, . L. Nach- role of the Marquise de LaFayette, about whom so few authors and re- searchers have written; Mr. Barring- ton Wells as the Marquise de LaFay- ette, Mr. Charles Steventon as Count Sonveau, the leading role, and Mme. . | Jeanette Beaumon in the supporting Louis and has taken an apartment at the Fairfax. Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Hayward of Aurara Hills, Va., have as guest Mrs. Hayward's parents, Dr. and Mrs. E 8, Niblack of Terre Haute, Ind. Mrs. John Marshall, 3d, entertained at & dinner at her home in Baltimore Friday evening in compliment to Mrs. Bernard Gallagher, young Washington authoress, known to her readers here and abroad as Phyllis Moore Gal- lagher. Mrs. Gallagher went to Balti- more to address a writers’ organiza- tion of that city, and the dinner not only honored the young visitor for her speech and presence in Baltimore, but particularly for the success of a collection of her short stories, widely syndicated by Public Ledger Syndi- cate, that have been translated into French and reprinted by the house of M. Sylvestre Beaumon in Paris in book form. ‘There were 60 guests at the dinner, among them many names familiar to ‘Washington society, including Mrs. Stacy Drexel, Mrs. Samuel T. Hollo- well and Mrs. McCahan Biddle, all of Philadelphia, Mrs. Marshall's house guests for the holidays, and Mr. H. W. Miner, also of Philadelphia, and the editor of Public Ledger Syndicate. Among the Washingtonians who went over for the occasion were Mrs. Ed- ward Mitchell, Baroness Korsoff, Mrs, Randolph Carter, Mrs. Selman Hous- ton, Mrs, Bracken Hoge and Miss Charlotte Ashby Brown, Mrs. Gal- Iagher’s debutante cousin. After dinner a hundred additional guests were invited to a concert of chamber music and to view the New T Amerigue one of Mre. Gelaghets one '8 short stories selected from the Beau- mon collection, & delightful historical story set in the glamorous period of the American Revolution and dealing with the efforts of the British to pre- vent the French from aiding the Col- ~HOTEL @elebrate Christmas Dining With Us Tomorrow A specially prepared menu—true to the tradi- tion of the holiday—and to the reputation of the Dodge —a festive dinner— Served from 12 to 8 P.M. 51_75 per plate Music from 1 to 3 and 6 to 8. Then you're invited to enjoy a long-established custom of ours—at 9:15. Our staff of colored em- ployer will assemble in the lounge—to sing the old familiar carols and spirit- uals—to the accompani- ment of crackling logs on the hearth, and in the soft light of the candles. And at the same time you'll enjoy seeing the unique International ~ Christmas Tree trimmed with souve- nirs from more than 40 foreign countries. Dinner reservations can be made by phoning National 5460. With our “no-tipping policy” you are free from annoyance. No. Capitol and E Streets Plenty of Parking Space True, We’ve Had the Busiest Christmas Yet, And, Because We Realize None of Us Is Infallible, We Take the Caution to Ask Have All Your Gifts from THE HECHT CO. Arrived? If they haven’t, telephone us immediately Call Dlstrict 9400 up until 12 o’clock tonight or from :15 a. m. to 12 noon tomerrow * K X Rest assured we will do everything within human power to see that they are deliv- ered in time for a very Merry Christmas! feminine role of Diana, an actress of the Dury Lane coached by Richard Sherian and a spy for Lord Stormworth, his excellency the British Ambassador to France. Mrs. J. Walter Thompson gave a luncheon Tuesday at her home on Delafield place for her sister, Mrs, Sue Bartley of Asheville, N.C. Mr." and uri. Oscar Snoddy are guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Snoddy in Falls Church over the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy A. Lincoln and their sons, Charles and Tom Lin- coln of New York City, have been making & brief visit in Washington, stopping at the Shoreham, before go- ing to Pinehurst. Mrs. Walter Tansill Oliver, jr., has left her home in Fairfax, Va., for SOCIETY. Roanoke, Va., to be the guest of her parents, . and Mrs. Burnam O. Grove, during the holidays, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hickerson of Charlotte, N. C,, are spending a few days in Washington at the Martinique. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Martin and son, Jimmy will motor to Ford, Va., to spend Christmas with Mr. Martin's parents. Young Men's Democratic Club in Maryland to Give Dance. ‘What promises to prove one of the most delightful events of the holiday season in Southern Maryland is the dance to be held Saturday evening by the Young Men's Democratic Club of Prince Georges County at. the Beaver Dam Country Club at Land- | over from 10 o'clock until 2. The | function will take the place of the ann Christmas dance of the Hy- attsville Cotillion Club, Since its grnnlnuon more than two years the Young Men's Club has given numerous dances, all of which have proved outstanding suc- cesses, drawing persons from many sections of Southern Mary- land, Washington and nearby com- munities. Patronesses for Saturday’s affair in- clude Mrs. Brice Bowie, Mrs. Mary ‘W. Browning, Mrs. T. Howard Duck- ett, Mrs. Willlam 8. Hill, Mrs. M. Hampton Magruder, Mrs. Charles C. Marbury, Mrs. Joseph C. Mattingly, Mrs. G. W. 8. Musgrave, Mrs. Irvin Owings, Mrs. Daisy F. La Coppidan, Mrs. Lansdale G. Sasscer and Mrs. William Stanley. Mr. Irvin G. Owings of Hyattsville is chairman of the club’s Social Com- (Continued on Third Page.) Collier Inm 18th & Columbia Road N.W. Tonight Dinner Served 5 to 8:15, 55¢, 65c and 75¢c TUESDAY, CHRISTMAS DAY, we will serve you a holiday dinner that Will delight and satisfy you in our air- conditioned dining room from noon till R:15.° Of course. there will be. among the large variety to select from. roast turkey. fried chicken. etc. 75¢ & $1.00. Greets You As candles glow, as yule logs blaze, Through all the world these holidays, A wish for you—bright Christmas cheer. And happiness in the New Year. Appreciation Brooks extends To all its many genial friends, Who helped to make fond dreams come true Throughout the season almost through. The dusk of nineteen thirty-four® Greets the dawn of a fashion floor— Built in regal magnificence By your good will, your confidence. . greet you nineteen thirty-five, May progress keep its tryst alive— May you know all the joy that we Are wishing in this Christmas tree. % * Wishing You a‘. Merry (fihrifitmanl Thanking you for your ever-increasing good will, Frank R. Jelleff, Inr.