Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1936, Page 25

SOCIETY. Officials and Residents in Capital Complete Their Guest at Tea Today The Roosevelt Clan Gathers at the White House for Christmas Six Grar:ldchildren to Be Guests of the Chief Executive and Mrs. Roosevelt for Week. BY KATHARINE BROOKS, HE President will complete his reading of Dickens’ “Christmas Carols” this afternoon, having read the first part yesterday afternoon just following the party given for little Eleanor Dall. This reading is usually completed Christmas eve, which this year is a very full day, so that the reading was advanced. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt and their two small children, Ruth Chandler Roosevelt and baby Elliott, jr., arrived a few days ago and Eleanor and Curtis Roosevelt Dall also have been at the White House for some days. Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President’s mother, will arrive today accompanied by Mrs. James Roosevelt and later in the day Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt, jr., and their two daughters, Sarah Delano Roosevelt and little Kate, will join the family party. Little Eleanor Roosevelt was hostess to about 40 of her con- temporaries yesterday afternoon at a Christmas party when a de- lightful program was given followed by a fitting and seasonable supper. The program was given by the Red Gate Shadow Players under the direction of Mr. Lee Ruttle, presenting “Street Fair” and “Elephant Gay,” and Miss Wendy Marshall, “The Toy Lady,” pre- sented Graham Jones’ “Merry-Go-Round,” Frieda Peycke's “How the Elephan* Got His Trunk,” Dorothy Miles’ “Mickey Mouse,” Louis F. Gottschalk’s “Jolly Cowboy,” John Barnes Wells’ “Two Little Magpies,” Liza Lehmann’s “Matilda,” Rhea Silberta’s “The Fairy Tale,” Jessie L. Gaynor’s “The Turkey Gobbler,” Churchill Grindell’'s “Christmas Doll Song,” Maurice Besley’s “The New Umbrella” and Jessie L. Gaynor’s “Christmas Stocking.” Miss Madeleine Marshall Simon played the accompaniments. Little Curtis Roosevelt Dall will have a similar party Monday afternoon for his young friends in Washington who are in his gen- eration. The dance which was planned for Saturday night in com- pliment to Miss Ethel du Pont and Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., was cancelled because of the illness of the latter who will arrive tomorrow from Boston. Miss du Pont is expected to come Friday afternoon, perhaps in time for Christmas dinner at the White House. Mr. John Roosevelt has arrived from his studies at Harvard to be with his parents through the holidays. Mrs. Roosevelt will attend the midnight service Christmas eve in St. Thomas’ Church of which she is a member, and earlier in the evening the stockings of her grandchildren will have been hung over the fireplace in the grandfather’s room, where early Christmas morning the family will assemble to investigate what Santa Claus has left. This custom is not alone for the children, but their parents and their grandparents, Mrs. Roosevelt playing Santa Claus in the filling of the President’s stocking. The fact that all the grandchildren believe in Santa Claus adds much to the joy of Christmas at the White House, and if any of the older children have Suspicions they have not voiced them to their elders. The first of the children awake rushes to awaken Mrs. Roosevelt and then dashes off to awaken all the uncles and aunts, as well as any of the youthful cousins who may not have their eyes open. While this process of awakening the household is on Mrs. Roosevelt has closed windows and lighted fires—except where the stockings hang. Affer breakfast the Chief Executive and members of his family attend morning services, and after luncheon presents are opened about the family tree in the west corridor of the second floor. All about the state apartments on the first floor are-pots of gay poinsettia and tiny Christmas trees, hung with icicles and at intervals up the staircase low evergreens with icicles are placed. The giant tree in the east room is a white tree, hung with icicles and lighted with white lights, and is placed against the east window. A group of Girl Scouts will sing Christmas carols for the Presi- dent and Mrs. Roosevelt and their family this evening at 7 o'clock, standing about the lighted tree in the east room. 3 Thursday morning Mrs. Roosevelt will distribute baskets for the Central Union Mission at the Capitol Theater at 9:30 o’clock, and in the afternoon at 2 o’clock she will act in a similar role for the Salvation Army. Mrs. Roosevelt will accompany the President across Lafayette Square when he lights the Community Christmas | tree at 5 o'clock. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will entertain the members of the White House office force at noon tomorrow about the tree in the east room, and at 3 o'clock the members of the house staff will be given a similar party. Mrs. Roosevelt will hold.her next press conference Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock as Monday she will attend the first of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend’s morning musicales at 11 o’clock at the Mayflower. Tuesday afternoon the President’s wife will be hostess at tea from 4 to 5 o’clock. Miss Ellita Steers To Wed Mr. Neel Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walker Steers announce the engagement of their daughter, Ellita, to Norman Touet Neel of Short Hills, N. J. Miss Steers is a sister of Mrs. Bernard Pope Day of Short Hills and New York and of Mrs. Charles C. Nicholls of New York. Mr, Neel is the son of Mrs. Walter Mr.and Mrs. Adams Give Dinner Party Mr. and Mrs. Fugene G. Adams were hosts at dinner last evening, en- tertaining a company of 50 at the | Chevy Chase Club. Miss Foley Engaged To Mr. E. R. Talbott Mrs. Thomas William Foley an- nounces the engagement of her daugh- Phillip Neel of Short Hills and the late Mr. Neel, who came from Eng- land and who were among the early settlers in Short Hills. He was a ter, Alice Natili, to Mr. Edward Rus- sell Talbott, son of Dr. and Mrs. Ben- jamin Erlie Talbott. ‘The wedding will take place in the near future. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1936. Engagement, Announced MISS MARGARET SPEIR, Whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Speir of Takoma Park, Md., today announce her engagement to Mr. Charles Clagett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Clagett. Residential Washington Social News Miss Beverley Moffett Entertaining in Hon- or of Miss Whittaker., 1SS BEVERLEY MOFFETT, subdebutante daughter of Mrs. Moffett and the late Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, will be hostess at an eggnog party this afternoon in her home on Massachusetts avenue. Miss Moffett is entertaining in honor of Miss Jane Whittaker, daughter of Maj. and Mrs. Frank L. Whittaker, whose marriage to Lieut. Louis Frederick de Lesder- nier, U. S. A, now stationed at Fort Bragg, will take place in the chapel at Fort Myer Tuesday, December 2§. Midshipman Charles Moffett, brother of the hostess, and several of his class- mates will come from Annapolis for the party and Midshipman Moffett will remain for Christmas with his mother, Miss Moffett will be assisted by Miss Florence Cauthier and Miss Lalle Har- rison of Leesburg, Va. Monday Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Fred W. Franke will entertain at a sup- per party in their home on Leland street, Chevy Chase, Md., for Miss Whittaker and Lieut. de Lesdernier and the members of their wedding party preceding the rehearsal at the chapel. Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Franke will be assisted by Maj. and Mrs. J. W. Barnett, whose two daughtors, the Misses Betsy Barnett and Arly Jane Barnett, will be bridesmaids at the wedding. Mr. ahd Mrs. Donald B. Burnett of Kilgore, Tex., are spending the Christmas holidays with Mr. Burnett's parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Burnett in their residence at 1314 Sheridan street. They will remain here for two weeks. Mr. Stuart D. Harter, who is a stu- dent at the University oi mmylunh. (Continued on Fourth Page.) Come for them —Bachrach Photo. i R MISS GENEVIEVE MARSH, Daughter of Mrs. Charles Mercer Marsh of Chevy Chase, Md., who will be a guest of her aunt Mrs. Paul Lamberton at a tea to be given this afternoon. Miss Marsh is a student at Sweet Briar College and is home for the holidays. Dinner at British Embassy Ambassador and Lady Lindsay Hosts. News of Other Diplomats. : H IS Britannic majesty’s Ambassador and Lady Lindsay were hosts at dinner last night in the embassy. The guests were the Belgian Ambassador, Count Robert van der Straten Pon- thoz; the Italian Ambassador, and Donna de Suvich, the Assistant Suburban Residents In the News 'Miss Williams to En- SOCIETY. *» B—3 Christmas Plans Beth Blaing ———————————— Nzws of another engagement! Mrs. Marga Wiel of Oslo, Norway, ane nounces the engagement of her daughter Constance to Mr. Stig Unger, formerly attache at the Swedish Legation here and recently trarsfered to the consulate in New York City. Miss Wiel and Mr. Unger were students together in Parls several years ago, where Miss Wiel studied “History of Art” in the shadow of the Louvre. The wedding will take place January § in the Riis Cathedral in Oslo. Immediately #“ter the ceremony the bride and bridegroom will sail for Mr. Unger's New Yorw post, The Swedish Legation for the last couple of years has furnished the bachelor ranks of Washington with man yrecruits . . . Carl Herbert Borgenstierna, now on duty at Bucharest, was known for his tireless vitality, as well as his gay and original parties; Stig Unger, besides being a past master in the art of dance, was a “reparteest” of no little renown. At present the ladies are digesting the rumor that Carl Westveldt, now at the Swedish Consulate in New York, may take Stig Unger’s former position here as attache to the legation. Mr. Westveldt, who visited here this Summer, is 6 feet 6 tall, and very dark. Though Washington is @ place where one is never missed, but also never forgotten . . . New York City is very near, and we look forward to welcoming Mr and Mrs. Unger within the District line in the not too distant future. * *x * % MONG the many dinner parties which took place last night, one of the very nicest was given by Myron Hofer and his most delightful mother, Mrs. Charles Hofer. Every one who has had the pleasure of dining with Myron Hofer knows that he is one of the very best hosts in Washington. Never has he given a dinner that the guests have not stayed until very, very late because the time has just flown by and—well, that's that. Last night the Hofer dinner took place at the 1925 F Street Club, and it was given for Margot Garrett and Mary Susan Jay, both deb- utantes of this year. The younger group dined in the dining room, while Mr. Hofer and his mother and their particular friends sat in the little room to the left of the front door. The table was cheerily decorated with @ snow-white Christmas tree, with lovely red bells dangling from every branch, and in the dining room were fascinating blue trees. We discovered that all these trees are being sent to families who may not be able to cope with purchasing a Christmas tree. What could be nicer than that as a really, truly Christian thought at this time of year? From Philadelphia had come Bill Tdylor, a very old friend of Myron Hofer, bringing with him his niece, Priscilla Taylor, and her fiance, Edgar How= ard. It was for Priscilla that Bill Taylor “threw” a very excellent ball last Saturday night in Philadelphia to which a number of Washingtonians went. Then on from the dinner to the Sulgrave Club to the Worthington ball. What an extraordinary place that club is! Last night it looked wholly different from the last time we were here—in fact, it has never looked like that before. It was decorated in the most fascinating way entirely in green leaves with the addition of a profusion of that lovely green gray moss one has seen so often in Charleston, S. C. This moss, however, had been sent all the way from Georgia from Mrs. Worthing= ton’s family plantation. It had a remarkable effect upon the whole place, giving it an atmosphere of coziness not usually found there. Mrs. Worthington and her debutante daughter Ethel were both dressed in white net dresses and both locking equally well. Mrs. Worthington's elder Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Wayne Chatfield-Taylor; former | Undersecretary of State and Mrs. Willlam R. Castle, the tertain at Dance Saturday. former United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James and Mrs. Alanson B. Houghton, Bishopg$—mm-—H—706on 4-—vi—r—r and Mrs. Rhinelander, Mrs. Frederic | Keep, Mme. Cantacuzene, the Charge d’'Affaires of Germany, Herr Hans Thomsen; the first secretary of the German Embassy and Frau Herbert Scholz, the first secretary of the Ital- ian Embassy, Don Marcello del Drag | dei Principi d’Antuni; the third sec- retary of the French Embassy and The Netherlands Minister and Mme. van Haersma de With and their daughter, Mlle. Nora van Haersma de With, will arrive in New York today ‘l’rom Europe, where they have been spending several months. Representative Richard J. Tonry of Mme. Saint, Mr. and Mrs. Armistead | Brookiyn, N. Y., is at the Wardman Peter, 3d: Miss Marion Trumbull, | park Hotel for Mille. Marrie de Laboulaye, daughter of | the French Ambassador and Mme. de | Laboulaye; Miss Elizabeth Sibley, Mr. | Charles Ritchie, M. Edward Weintal, the air attache of the British Em- bassy; Group Captain T. E. B. Howe and the first secretary of the British Embassy, Mr. Philip Broadmead. The Polish Ambassador and Count- ess Potocka are in New York to meet the Ambassador’s mother, Countess Roman Potocka, and his brother, Count Alfred Potocki, who will arrive on the Europa. The Ambassador's mother and brother will spend some time in the Capital. ‘The Swiss Minister and Mme. Peter left Monday for Boston, where they will sperid Christmas and the holidays with their sons and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George Peter, and Mr. Marc Peter, jr., and the children of Mr. and Mrs. George Peter. The Minister and Mme. Peter will return to Washington next week. LASTING GIFTS Mattresses. T e, Tttty e H. A. LINGER 925 G St. N.W. NA. 4711 ay or two. Representative and Mrs. Lloyd Thurston have taken an apartment for the congressional season at 2000 Connecticut avenue. Brig. Gen. Juan F. Azcarate jeft ‘Washington yesterday by airplane for Mexico City to spend the Christmas holidays with Mme. Azcarate and their three children, who have been in Mexico for the past eight months. Gen. Azcarate has been staying at the Roosevelt Hotel while his family has been away, and when he re- turns shortly after the New Year he an informal dance at her home Saturday evening in honor of her house guests, Miss Marion Smith of Wilmington, Del, and Miss Emily Light and Miss Dorothy Light of Winchester, Va. ISS MARGARET WILLIAMS M of Lorton will entertain at Mr. and Mrs. Paul K. Stenger of Vienna will leave Saturday for sev- eral days visit to Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cox at Cape Charles, Va. Mrs. Anna Boal Wickes of Mount Vernon has left for Mexico City, Mexico, to spend the holidays with | Miss Vinita Smith. Later Mrs. | Wickes will go to Los Angeles to| spend the Winter months, Miss Mary Whitehead and Maj. Wesson of New York arrived yester- day to spend Christmas with Miss Whitehead's brother-in-law and sis- ter, Mr. and Mrs. J. Craig Hunter, in their home near Vienna, Va. 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