Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1937, Page 39

Capital’s Social High Lights Part 3—10 Pages Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife of the Secretary of State, shown with Mr. Richard Southgate at her home Wednesday at the Carlton Hotel. The French Ambassador And Mme. de Laboulaye . Guests Before Sailing| Extensively Entertained on Eve of Returning ‘ to France—Ambassador of Argentina | to Be Back This Week. HE Ambassador of Argentina and Senora de Espil will return to the Capital the last of the week from the Argentine, where they have been spending several months. The Ambassador of France and Mme. de Laboulaye expect to leave Washington the first of next week for New York, whence they will sail to return to France. The newly appointed Ambassador, M. Georges Bonnet, will arrive in New York Tuesday, February 16, and will probably remain there a few days before coming here to assume his new duties. The Ambassador and Mme. de Laboulaye will be the guests in whose honor the Turkish Ambassador and Mme. Ertegun will entertain at luncheon Friday. Yesterday the Italian Ambassador and Signora de Suvich en- tertained at a luncheon in honor of the Ambassador and Mme. de Laboulaye. The Soviet Ambassador and Mme. Troyanovsky also will be hosts to the Ambassador and Mme. de Laboulaye, for whom they will entertain at luncheon Saturday. The Ambassador of Germany, Herr Hans Luther, will be host at luncheon at the Embassy Tuesday. The Japanese Ambassador and Mme. Saito have issued invi- tations to a dinner Tuesday evening when the ranking guests will | be the Italian Ambassador and Signora de Suvich. | The Ambassador and Mme. Saito gave a children’s party yes- | terday afternoon fér their youngest daughter, Masako, who cele- | brated her birthday anniversary. The 20 youthful guests are classmates of little Masako’s at the Convent of the Sacred Heart. The Norwegian Minister, M. return today from a short visit in New York. - The Minister of Finland and formal luncheon party Wednesday in honor of their distinguished countryman, Mr. Eliel Saarinen, inter-+ nationally known- architect, who is| spending some time in Washington. The Colombian Minister and Senora de Lopez returned yesterday from a short stay in New York City. The Egyptian Minister, Mr. Mo- hamed Amine oussef, was host at dinner last evening, entertaining 26 guests in honor of the new Undersec- retary of Agricuiture and Mrs. Mil- burn L. Wilson. The Minister will be host at a re- eeption. Thursday afternoon from 5 to 7 o'clock to celebrate the birth- day anniversary of the King of Egypt. | The Honduras Minister arid Senora de Lozano have issued invitations for Friday afterncon from 5 to 7 o'clock et the legation. The Bulgarian Minister, Mr. Dimi- tri Naoumoff, was host at luncheon yesterday at the legation. The Venezuelan Minister, Senor Dr. Don Diogenes Escalante, -enter- tained at luncheon yesterday in honor of the United States Minister to Venezuela and Mrs. Meredith Nichol- son, who are in Washington for a visit and are staying at the May- flower. The Canadian Minister and Lady Marler will go to New York today for several days. They will be guests of honor at the luncheon Tuesday of the woman’s division of the Amer- ican Council of St. Luke's Interna- tional Medical Center in Tokio. The luncheon will be given at Pierre’s and the Minister will share honors at the luncheon with the Right Rev. John Thomas Dallas, Bishop of New Hamp- | counselor of the United States Em- ! has been at this post since October, | greatly regretted. shire, and Mr. Eugene S. Doomp' ¢ Munthe de Morgenstierne, will Mme. Jarnefelt will give an in- bassy in Japan. The Minister, who formerly represented his government in Tokio. The new acting secretary of the Danish Legation, Mr. Eric Wedel- Heinen, left yesterday for Chicago, where he will remain until the return | of the Minister, Mr. Otto Wadsted, who is on leave in Denmark. Bewleys Departing For Foreign Office Information has been received that the financial counselor of the British Embassy and Mrs. T. K. Bewley are returning to the foreign office in Lon- don. Mrs. Bewley has been in Eng- land for the past month but will re- turn to Washington this week. In a fortnight Mr. and Mrs. Bewley will bid farewell to Washington, but be- fore going to England they will take a trip to California. After some years at this post Mr. and Mrs. Bewley have made a host of friends and are very popular members of the diplo- matic corps and their departure is Pana:na dflicial Visits in New York The secretary of public works of Panama and Senora de Arosemena went to New York yesterday and will spend several weeks there. The sec- retary and Senora de Arosemena have he OCIETY SECTION Suntlny St WASHINGTON, D. C, o Miss Nancy Miller, debutante daughter of Mr. William W. Miller of New York, snapped as she left the residence of her aunt, Mrs. Charles Albert McKenney. SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY = 7, 1937. Center: Two former cabinet hostesses who met at Mrs. Lawrence Townsend’s musi- cale Monday. Mrs. William N. Doak, widow of the late Secretary of La- bor (left) and Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley, wife of the former Secre- tary of War. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman with her sister, Mrs. George Mairs of New York, pictured arriving at Mrs. Hull's home last week. ] . Residential . Washington Mrs. William Howard Taft to Sail for Mediterranean. RS. WILLIAM HOWARD M TAFT, wife of the late for- mer President and Chief Jus- " tice, will leave Washington Tuesday and will sail Wednesday for & Mediterranean cruise. She will re- turn to Washington about Easter time. Mrs. :Beck, widow of former Rep- resentative James M. Beck, has as her guest over Sunday her son, Mr. James M. Beck, jr. Former Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Serv- jce and Mrs. Hugh S. Cumming will go to Richmond tomorrow to be guests of Miss Frances Scott for the week. Mrs. Emil Hurja has returned from a week’s visit in New York and will be jointed in a fortnight by Mr. Hurja, who flew to the Pacific Coast the end of the week. Miss Mary Elizabeth Dow, daugh- ter of Rev. George W. Dow and the late Mrs. Dow, entertained last eve- been guests at the Panama Legation for a week and have been extensively entertained. ¢ * f ning in compliment to Miss Margaret (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) Official Washington Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau Will Return Tomorrow From Sea Island. | THE Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr., [ will return to Washington tomorrow from Sea Island, Ga., where they have spent a week. The Postmaster General, Mr. James A. Farley, is in New York City, where he will remain until Thursday with Mrs. Farley and their children. Yesterday the Postmaster General dedicated a post office in Hamilton, N. Y., and in Rome, N. Y. The Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Harold L. Ickes, will leave the Capital first of next week for San Antonio, Tex., where he will dedicate & dam. He will go from % there to St. Louis to spend a short | Mr. L. Bruce Hord, deputy admin- time. istrative assistant to the adjutant gen- IRy eral, and Mrs. Hord returned this Col. George B. McClellan, president | week from a vacation at their Win- of the Italy-America Society of Wash- | ter home in Miami, motoring by way ington, has announced the showing of the Bok Singing Tower, ~Silver of an Italian film, “Leorenzino de Med- | Springs and Southern Pines, and have ici,” at the next meeting of the reopened their home on Adams Mill society, February 17, at the May- road. flower. Lieut. Comdr. A. D. Ayrault, U.S. N., ‘and Mrs. Ayrault entertained at a buffet supper party Friday evening at their home on the Colesville road in Silver Spri.g, Md. Lieut. and Mrs. Robert Garrels. of Boston, Mass., are visiting the latter's mother, Mrs. G.'W. Rose of Kensing ton, Md. X Maj. and Mrs, Edward' M: Brown of Endless Caverns, Va., with their son, Edward M. Brown, jr., and their daughters, Bliss and Kendrick Brown, and Capt. and Mrs. Ben King of Washington, sailed yesterday from New York for a four or five weeks' trip to Bermuda on the Monarch of Ber- muda, » Committee For Benefit Matinee Attend Miss Bank- head’s Performance. G are represented on the Com- mittee on Arrangements formed by Mrs. John Allan Dougherty for the special benefit matinee to be given by Tallulah Bankhead, star of “Reflected Glory,” at the National The- ater on Thursday afternoon, February 11, the entire gross receipts of which will be turned over to the Red Cross for flood relief. ‘The special matinee is at Miss Bank- head’s suggestion and is her contribu- tion to the Red Cross. Miss Bankhead is the daughter of the Speaker of the House and the niece of Senator Bank- head. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, head of the Red Cross, accepted Miss Bank- head's offer for the National Chapter, | which has pointed out recently that OVERNMENT officials, diplo- mats and social personages is the maximum genercsity of the public. b ‘Washington sceleiy girls, acting in their capacity as Red Cross volunteers, will serve as ushers and program girls at the performance. “Reflected Glory” is by George Kelly, (Continued on Page 6, Column 4. mE HIGHLIGHTS OF FESTIVITIES DURING PRE-LENTEN WEEK Mrs. James Roosevelt, daughter-in-law of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt (left), with Miss Marguerite Le Hand leaving Mrs. Hull's reception Wednesday to attend the at home of Mrs. Homer S. Cummings, where Mrs. James Roosevelt assisted. —Underwood & Underwood Photos. Mrs. George Knox Berry, Mr. Hudson Engagement | To Be Announced Today 'Mrs. John Gilmore Will Entertain Couple at | Breakfast Party—Plans for Other Weddings Also Are Made. | HE engagement of Mrs. George Knox Berry, daughter of Mrs. William S. Knox and the late Mr. Knox, to Mr. D. Hurd Hudson, formerly of Mississippi, now living in Washington, will be announced today. The announcement will be made at a breakfast party which Mrs. John Gilmore will give at midday in her home in honor of Mrs. Berry and Mr. Hudson. The guests, who who will number about 50, are close friends of the honor guests and Mrs. Gilmore has arranged a reproduction of the famous breakfast served at the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson, when the President visited there in recent years. Hams, turkeys and beaten biscuits have been sent from Tennessee for the repast and Mrs. Gilmore will be assisted by Mrs. Edward McCormick and Mrs. Sumpter Smith. In addition.a miniature bar has been erected and the “bartenders” will be Gen. Albert Cox, Col. E. A. McCormick, Col. Sumpter Smith and Col. Robert Gates. P Mrs. Berry is a member of one of the old families in the District, where she made her debut some years ago. She is a handsome brunette and popular among the old resident circles as well as the Tennessee residents In the District. In recent years | Mrs. Berry became correspondent for papers in Tennessee and is a member of the Newspaper Women’s Club and of the Tennessee | State Society. Her daughter, Miss Nancy Knox Berry, recently | returned from a visit with her grandmother in Tennessee. Mrs. Berry’s older daughter, Mrs. Coleman, is the wife of Lieut. Frank | glhc)(]fleman, U. S. A. Air Corps, who is stationed at Selfridge Field, ch. 1 Mr. Hudson is a native of Gulfport, Miss., and graduated from icumberland University in Tennessee, after which he practiced § | law in Memphis and was special counsel for the Bank of Commerce | & Trust Co. in Memphis for 14 years or more, specializing in bank law. He was chairman of the N. R. A. Compliance Board of Western | Tennessee and Arkansas until he became a member of the legal department of the Federal Home Loan<* i Notable Gathering to| the only limit of Red Cross assistance | Bank Board in 1934. He is now legal adviser to the auditor of the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. in all its opera- and its territorial possessions. The wedding will take place in the early Spring. Miss Elizabeth Beall And Mr. Wistar Engaged. engagement of their daughter Eliza- beth to Mr. Thomas Wistar, jr., son Philadelphia. Miss Beall attended schools in Washington and is a member of the ‘Washington Junior League. Mr. Wistar graduated from Haver- ford College in 1930 and from the Pennsylvania School of Architecture in 1934. He is a member of the St. Anthony Club of New York. The wedding will take place in the Fall Miss Mary Ann McFarland To Marry Lieut. Twitchel. COL. AND MRS. EARL MCcFAR- LAND of Governors Island, N. Y., announce the engagement of their daughter Mary Ann to Lieut. Hamil- ton Austin. Twitchell, United States Army. Miss McFarland was graduated from the Madeira School of Washington in 1932 and from Vassar College in 1936. Lieut. Twitchell is a graduate of the | United States Military Academy, class of 1935, and now is assigned to the 16th Infantry, Fort Jay, N. Y. The marriage will take place in March. Miss Anita Dunlap To Wed Dr. Simonton. MR. AND MRS. FRANK R. DUN- LAP announce the engagement of their daughter Anita Brunet to Dr. Kinsey M. Simonton of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., son of Dr. tions throughout the United States| MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM MAR- | BURY BEALL announce the| of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wistar of | and Mrs. Edgar L. Simonton of Wen= dell, Idaho. Miss Dunlap is a graduate of George ‘Washington University, where she re- ceived her A. B. degree in 1933 and her M. A. degree in 1934. She is a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority. Dr. Simonton is a graduate of George Washington University, where he received his B. S. degree in 1929, In 1933 he was given his M. D. degres at George Washington University Medical School. He is a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. The wedding of Miss Dunlap and Dr. Simonton will take place March 30 in the Church of the Epiphany. Miss Mary Kuck Engaged To Mr. William R. Winter MR‘ AND MRS. ARTHUR B. CLAWSON announce the ene gagement of their niece, Miss Mary Comstock Kuck, to Mr. William Rich- ard Winter, nephew of Miss E. May Winter of this city. Miss Kuck is the daughter of Mr, Julius A. Kuck of Albion, N. Y. The wedding will take place March 6. Miss Dorothy Heffner To Marry Mr. Lanham. M!L AND MRS. B. N. HEFFNER of Statesville, N. C., announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Dorothy Carolyn to Mr. James Clinton Lane ham of Washington. ot The wedding will take place FebHi= ary 19 at Epworth M. E. Church, | Washington. Mme:Alfaro at Home Mme. Ricardo Alfaro, wife of the former Minister of Panama, received in her residence on Sixteenth street yesterday afternoon at her second “at home” of this season. Mme. Alfaro will be at home again in several ‘weeks. T