Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1936, Page 23

SOCIETY. Postmaster General Sailing for Ireland Today From New York British Ambassador and Lady Lindsay Hosts at Luncheon in Embassy—Other Parties in Diplomatic Circles. THE Postmaster General, Mr. James A. Farley, will sail today from New York for Ireland,” where he will spend several weeks. He will return to this country the middle of De- tember. His Britannic majesty’s Ambassador and Lady Lindsay enter- tained at luncheon yesterday in honor of Miss Gertrude Lawrence and Mr. Noel Coward. The other guests were the counselor of the Canadian Legation and Mrs. Hume Wrong, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, Miss Joyce Carey, Mr. Alan Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Cortlandt Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hoyt, and the military attache of the embassy and Mrs. Torr. . The Belgian Ambassador and the Comtesse van der Straten- Ponthoz entertained at dinner last evening in the embassy. The Polish Ambassador and Countess Potocka have left the Capital for Chicago, where they will spend several days. They will be entertained by the Polish-American organizations. The Norwegian Minister and Mme. Munthe de Morgenstierne were hosts at dinner last evening in honor of the United States Minister to Norway and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, who are on leave in this country. The Minister of El Salvador, Dr. Hector David Castro, enter- tained at luncheon yesterday at the Mayflower in compliment to Mr. Frank P. Corrigan, United States Minister to El Salvador, who is now visiting here. The guests included the Ambassador of Ecuador, Senor Capitan Colon Eloy Alfaro; the Minister of Guate- mala, Senor Dr. Don Adrian Recinos; the Minister of Colombia, Benor Don Miguel Lopez Pumarejo; the Bolivian Minister, Senor Dr. Don Luis Fernando Guachalla; the Charge d’Affaires of Nicaragua, Senor Dr. Don Henri De Bayle; Mr. Willard L. Beaulac of the Latin- American division of the Department of State; Senor Dr. Don Miguel Angel Pena Valla, secretary of the legation of El Salvador; Mr. Edward G. Trueblood, Dr. Jose G. Lewis and Senor Raul Diez de Medina. The Dominican Minister and Senora de Pastoriza will be hosts at dinner tonight in the legation, when the ranking guest will be the United States Minister to the Dominican Republic, Mr. Arthur Bchoenfeld. The Greek Minister, M. Demetrios Sicilianos, is spending sev- eral days in New York, where he is stopping at the Hotel St. Moritz. Yugoslav Minister And Mme. Fotitch Hosts at Dinner THE Yugoslav Minister and Mme. dance last evening in the Legation, on Sixteenth street, in honor of Dr. Ivan The United States Minister to Costa Rica and Mrs. Leo R. Sack have returned to Washington for another visit and are again stay- ing at the Mayflower. Mrs. William E. Borah, wife of Senator Borah, will leave Boise, Idaho, today for Washington. Senator Borah, who has been ill with a cold, will go to Reno tomorrow to attend a meeting of a | special Senate Committee on Silver. He will return to Boise before coming East. Representative and Mrs Stephen W. Gambrill have closed their home, Linden Manor, in Howard County, Md, and are at the Shoreham for the season. The Assistant Secretary of Comgerce and Mrs. J. Monroe John- son have returned to the Shoreham from their home in Marion, 8. C., where they spent the election week. While in South Carolina they attended the Democratic banquet in Columbia and visited in Charleston. The Cuban Consul and Senora de Sera announce the birth of B son yesterday at Columbia Hospital. Gordon, Miss Florence Harris, Mr. and Comdr. H. H. Lippincott, U. S. A, retired, of Newark, N. J., is | Mrs. Paul Alling, Comdr. and Mrs. H. et the Martinique for a few days. ! A, Seiller, Miss Helen Garduno, Seno- | rita Olga Patterson, the second secre- Capt. W. W. Bessell, U. 8. A,, and Mrs. Bessell are at the Mar- | tary of the British Embassy, Mr. Philip tinique for a short stay. Broad; first secretary of the French Embassy, Mr. Roger Gaucheron; Officials -Sailing For Europe Today who will leave the Capital December 1 for Belgrade, where he will be on duty at the foreign office. Other guests were the naval attache of the Itallan Embassy and the Marchioness di Sant’ Orsola, the mili- tary attache of the French Embassy and Mme. Lombard, Third Secretary of the French Embassy and Mme. | Baint, the attache of the Swiss Lega- tion and Mme. Schlatter, Secretary of |the Rumanian Legation and Mme. | Popovici, Attache of the Egyptian Le- gation and Mme. Zoulfikar, Mlle. Therese de Laboulaye, Secretary of the zic, who have been in Paris for a brief vacation and returned to Washington yesterday. Mile. Sibilla Skidelsky, Miss Eleanor Corby and Miss Justine Corby, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Ashton, Miss Evelyn Miss Caldwell To Make Debut Fotitch were hosts at a dinner | Pranges, secretary of the legation, Yugoslavian Legation and Mme. Pera- | counselor of the Czechoslovakian Le- gation, Dr. Josef Nemecek; first secre- Senator Joseph A. Guffey sailed to- fay in the Normandie for Europe. tary of the Czechoslovakian Legation, Mr, Otakar Kabelac; secretary of the Among others aboard the steamer are the Governor of Wisconsin and Mrs. Philip La Follette, Rear Admiral Cary 'T. Grayson, chairman of the Ameri- can Red Cross; the Undersecretary of State for France and Mme. Tessan and MMme. Jusserand, widow of the former French Ambassador, who has been Mrs. George Kearsley Caldwell will ipresenb her daughter, Miss Kearsle; | Caldwell, to society at a tea dance | Saturday afternoon, December 12, in | the garden of the Mayflower. Mrs. | Caldwell, the former Miss Lillian Da- | vis of Weshington, was one of the five Davis sisters who made their de- but in the Capital some 20 years ago. They were the daughters of Mr. and | Legation of Portugal, Senor Joao de Deus Ramos; secretary of The Nether- | lands Legation, Mr. Jonkheer H. M. | van der Wyck; first secretary of the | Egyptian Legation, Mr. Anis Azer; | second secretary of the Polish Em- bassy, Mr. Edward Kulikowski; at- tache of the Polish Embassy, Mr. Michal Budny; Mr. Paul de Laboulaye, Mr. Slavko Cerick and Mr. Rastko Petrovic, secretary of the Yugoslavian wisiting in this country. Mrs. E. G. Davis. Legation. [ e ] November Suggestions m Floor Coverings and ~ Oriental Rugs There are few experiences more deeply satisfying than the creation of a home whose every appointment expresses one’s conception of beauty and comfort. The correct selection of your floor coverings is very important for the accomplish- ment of this purpose. You will find in our stock a large variety of beautiful rugs, to fill every requirement. 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North 3343 ,SOCIETY, y ‘ J Beth Blaine Mark Bristols gave a most amusing dinner the other night for the popular Mrs, Ballard Moore, who was Olive Graef. The ldootu are living In Chicago, and whenever they return here it is time {:or Joyous celebration. / Many are the stories of Olive and her superb sense of hufior. She 18 a perfect mimic, and years ago, when she heard that some friends of hers were looking for a governess and that the husband had iy sisted on doing the interviewing, she dressed up as a demure, quiet pirson and applied for the job armed with some marvelous references| and was engaged on the spot! When the harassed jather discover¢d he had engaged the impish Olive he had to admit the joke was on)him! The Bristols’ dinner was lively and interesting, Theje are always choruses of “Ah’s!” and “Oh's!” to greet each course Irom;' Mrs. Bristol's famous kitchen. In their house, surrounded by treasures fr)m the Orient, 1t was quite natural that the conversation should turn to China, which most of us know and love. One guest, who had been in our ¢liplomatic corps and had lived in Peiping (then called Pekin), had us convulsed with laughter over his reminiscences. He had eight perfectly trained Chihese servants—or boys, as they are called—who bought their own food, and/ for all eight he paid the munificent sum of $60 a month! J One day the narrator of this story was given a1 especially fine songbird and at once another servant had to be engaged to look ajter the bird. After a few weeks the “bird boy,” or numbef 9 boy, came to his master and asked for a raise in salary. This annoyed our friend and on demanding why she should be entitled to mare pay, number 9 boy replied that “their bird” was so superior he did fot dare take him to cheap tea houses, where he might pick up some (ommon songs—he could only frequent the best tea houses where all t/je “bird boys” took the most exclusive birds and in that way his bzaun/fil liquid notes were not contaminated. [ Another friend had been given goldfish and [at once @ “goldfish boy” had to be engaged. Of course, there is alkays the “dog boy,” whose only task is keeping his canine charges ilappy. One day our Jriend saw a strange servant in his back court ya |d and upon inquiring Jound it was the “stinky chow boy,” in other wo/ds, the garbage man! When the dirner was over, instead of wanderiig into the drawing room for coffee, all the lights were turned out in the dining room and as we sat around the table a great blazing bowl was placer/ in front of our hostess. It was the famous Cafe Diable of New Orleans. /The bowl was filled with spices, cognac, sugar and all sorts of marvelors things, and the brandy lighted. Slowly into the flames was poured the /coffee and the whole cone coction stirred by a long-handled ladle—the blul flame flaring higher each time the burning ladle was lifted. / Sk | 'ARIOUS nice invitations have been iss'/ed in the past few days, including one for the dinner which Ncpcy Leiter is giving before the first of the three dances, December 5. 7/hen, tomorrow, Mrs. Emory Sands is giving a small cocktail party at the 1925 F Street Club for Mrs. Robert P. Joyce, whose husband is in fhe State Department. Mrs. Joyce’s mother was a very great friend of/Mrs. Sands, who looks upon Mrs. Joyce almost as a daughter. Next |Tuesday Lady Lindsay, wife of his Brittanic majesty’s Ambassdor, i} giving a cocktail party to which the guests have been asked to merj: Noel Coward. We trust that Miss Lawrence will be there, too, so thaf we may have the pleasure of telling them both just how marvelous thfy were in the first three plays of “Tonight at Eight-Thirty” Perhap| we may also have a chance that day to ask Miss Lawrence where she got that short sable jacket she wore in “The Astonished Heart.” | * % %% E James Clement Dunns gave a dinjfer recently in honor of pretty Mrs. Stanley Kennedy of Honolulu, whe/ was their guest for several days. The Greek Minister, Mr. Demetrios Sic’lianos, was there, and our American Ambassador to Brazil, the fascinating/ Hugh Gibson, who-is now on the high seas headed for the Argemtine tith the American commission. Mrs. Gibson was in London this Summer arjd from there went to Poland to make a round of visits at some of the mjgnificent estates which exist in that country; from there to Rumania, lnA the last letter which the Ambassador had received from her held the jiews that she was floating down the Danube with King Carol on his yacijit with a very gay party, and they were stopping off at one of his majesty’s /atatzs for some shooting. Others there that night u'evL Tom Wilson of the State Department, slightly weary after the strenvpus weeks of oral ezamination for the hopeful ones who had studied ia diligently to enter our foreign service; the Hume Wrongs of the Canjdian Legation, who are so nice and one of the most popular couples in the diplomatic set; the Hugh Auchin- closses—Nina in a most becoming dark blue metallic cloth gown, and Mrs. Emory Sands in a lovely black and white diamante dress. 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