Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1937, Page 27

SOCIETY. Lenten Season Enlightened by Informal Dinners of Mrs. Roosevelt Hostess This Afternoon at Tea For Bryn Mawr Alumnae Japanese Ambassador and Mme. Saito to Entertain Tonight at Dinner for Chi- nese Ambassador and Mme. Sze. RS. ROOSEVELT will return to Washington today from New York and will be hostess this afternoon at tea for the mem- bers of the council of the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association and of the Washington Bryn Mawr Club, who are meeting in the Capital this week. The council and members of the club were guests at luncheon today of Baroness Serge Korff, who entertained at the Washington Club. A dinner will be given this evening by Mrs. Henry L. Grant for the members of the Scholarship Committee of the council. Earlier in the afternoon Mrs. Roosevelt will receive the retiring Cuban Ambassador, Senor Dr. Guillermo Patterson y de Jauregui and his daughter, Senorita Olga Patterson. Mrs. Roosevelt will also receive this afternoon those persons who have called at the White House during the season. The President had as his guests over night at the White House 8ir Arthur and Lady Willert. Sir Arthur is on a lecture tour in this country. The Chilean Ambassador, Senor Don Manuel Trucco, will en- tertain at a stag luncheon Saturday in his honor and tomorrow night the Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. B. Sumner Welles will give a dinner for him. The Ambassador of Japan and Mme. Saito will entertain at dinner this evening in honor of the retiring Chinese Ambassador and Mme. Sze. The Turkish Ambassador and Mme. Ertegun entertained at luncheon today in honor of the retiring Cuban Ambassador, Senor Dr. Don Guillermo Patterson y de Jauregui, who will leave the first of next week for his new post at Mexico City. The Cuban Ambassador entertained at a tea and reception yesterday afternoon for the Cuban colony here in celebration of the forty-second anniversary of the beginning of the revolution which brought about Cuban independence. His daughter, Senorita Olga Patterson, will remain in Wash- {ngton a month longer as the guest of Senorita Rebeca Trucco, daughter of the Chilean Ambassador. The Mexican Ambassador, Senor Dr. Don Castillo Najera, who has been in Mexico for the past several weeks, will return to Washington tomorrow. The Austrian Minister and Mme. Prochnik will be hosts at din- ner this evening in the Legation. The Minister of the Union of South Africa and Mrs. Close will entertain at dinner tomorrow evening in the Legation in honor of the Ambassador of Turkey and Mme. Ertegun. The Norwegian Minister and Mme. Munthe de Morgenstierne entertained at dinner last night in the legation, when the rank- ing guests were the Peruvian Ambassador, Senor Don Manuel de Freyre y Santander; the German Ambassador, Herr Hans Luther, and Senator and Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, and the Netherlands Min- ister and Mme. van Haersma de With. Mme. Sze, wife of the Chinese Ambassador, was the guest in | whose honor Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman entertained at luncheon today. Among the guests were Mme. van Haersma de With and Mme. Fotitch. The Siamese Minister and Mme. Rajamaitri will entertain at | dinner this evening in honor of the Turkish Ambassador and Mme. Ertegun. Lady Marler, wife of the Canadian Minister, will not receive | tomorrow afternoon. The United States Minister to Czechoslovakia, J. Butler Wright, and Miss Mary Wright are staying at the Carlton Hotel during their | visit to Washington. They will stay a few weeks before returning | to Prague. Mrs. Warren R. Austin, who, with Senator Austin, makes her | home at the Mayflower during the congressional season, will not | observe her day at home this afternoon. The military adviser to the Philippine Commonwealth, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, and his aide, Capt. T. J. Davis, have taken a suite at the Carlton Hotel for their month’s stay in Washington. They arrived Monday from Manila, Philippine Islands. The newly appointed attache of the Argentine Embassy, Senor Luis Mariano Zuberbuhler, arrived in New York Tuesday on the Queen Mary, and is expected to come to Washington within a few days. Senor Zuberbuhler has been attached to the Argentine Em- | bassy in London, from which post he was transferred here. Capt. and Mrs. M. M. Barnard, who have been motoring in Florida, expect to return to Larton, Va., next week. Maj. and Mrs. H. V. Scanlan of Fort Myer, Va., entertained a small company at dinner Saturday night in their quarters on the gost. taking their guests later to the Saturday night hop at Hop all. Out-of-town guests included Maj. Warfield Falk of Fort Bliss, El Paso, Tex., and Maj. Frank McGee, retired, of Mindanoa, Philippine Islands. Maj. Falk is spending this week at Gettysburg, Pa., with Maj. Scanlan, who is engaged in temporary duty there. Lieut. John A. Hollowell, 5th, U. S. N. and Mrs. Hollowell have as their guest in their apartment on Massachusetts avenue the former’s mother, Mrs. John A. Hollowell, 4th, of Norfolk, Va. The soft luxury of this natural shade Fabric with its loose Mannish _ “Swing” < .«.Makes itaFeo- ture Value in our ‘advance sports ‘coat selections at 1995 CHARGE ACCOUNTS INVITED 1303 F STREET THE EVENING STAR, . WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1937. Box Committee Chairman MRS. BERNARD M. WISE, Chairman of the Bor Committee for Father Hubbard’s lecture at Constitution Hall next Wednesday, given under auspices of the Guild of Jesuit Mothers of Washington. Proceeds of the lecture will go to Father Hubbard’s Alaskan mission. Underwood & Underwood Photo. Residential Social Notes Miss Mary MeDowell to Be Married March Twentieth. RS. RALPH WALKER Mc- DOWELL has issued invita- tions for the marriage of her daughter Mary to Mr. Robert Alexander Long Ellis, Sat- urday afternoon, March 20 at 4:30 o'clock, 1n St. Thomas' Church. Miss Frances Andrews, daugiter of the chief of the Bureau of Navigation | and Mrs. Adolphus Andrews, and Miss Jane Watson of New York have left for a two weeks’ stay in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Hartwell Cady of Mellette, S. Dak., who are spending the Winter with their daughter, Mrs. | E. E. Danley of 3207 Foxhall road, will be guests of honor at a dinner party given by Mr. and Mrs. Danly in their home tonight, the occasion being the 57th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Cady. Mr. and Mrs. Perry B. Simms gave a dinner at their home on Cathedral avenue Sunday eveming in compli- ment to their house guests, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Manville Hartley of Norfolk, Va., and Mr. Bruce M. Guthrie of North Bergen, N. J. The guests in- cluded Miss Katharine Simms, Mrs. Ann Bowden Bassler, Miss Margaret Watkins, Miss Katharine Patterson, Capt. Allan D. Deason, jr., Mr. Bev- erly Simms and Mr. Eugene Bowden. tord Duveen, famous connoiseur of paintings, has returned to Washing- ton for a visit. He is occupying & suite at the Carlton Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Hopkins of Lock Haven, Pa., are stopping at the Wardman Park Hotel while in Washington for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Thorpe have gone to New York and are at the Van- | derbilt for a brief stay. Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Townsend of Minneapolis, Minn., are occupying & suite at the Hotel Raleigh while spending & few weeks in Washing- ton. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Poehlmann of Erlangen, Germany, are staying at the Carlton Hotel during their visit in ‘Washington. Mrs. Earl Pratt of Grand Forks, N. Dak, is stopping at the Dodge and is accompanied by Mrs. J. A. Shan- non of Devils Lake, N. Dak. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sheppard of Lewell, Mass., are at the Marti- nique for a brief stay. "Bonnie Roller’ / Wear it up Breton-fashion—or down Bonnet-wise-either way it’s slated to be outstanding and belongs in your Spring- hat wardrobe. — L. Frank Co. F St. ot 12th This Spring suit in soft black wool crepe, with its charm- ing Ballet Russe skirt pleated all around a slim waist, is bound to give you real pleasure. Definitely in the new “dressed-up” mode, the collar is of silver fox— to swirl gracefully around your shoulders. Wedding in Baltimore MRS. FRANK TRUMAN RAWLINGS, Formerly Miss Elsie Williams Tindall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Tindall of Annapolis. ary 4 in Baltimore. Maryland-Virginia News The wedding took place Febru- Miss Evans Hostess for Miss 1SS AGNES EVANS, daughter of Maj. and Mrs. C. L. Mul- lins of Sunward, Addison Heights, Va., entertained at luncheon today at the Army and | | Navy Country Club in honor of Miss Virginia Ridgway, daughter of Maj. and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway, whose | engagement to Lieut. Stuart Gilbert Pries, son of Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Amos A. Pries of Washington, has just been announced. Other guests included Miss Carol Fries and Mrs. Theodore Plerson, sisters of Lieut. Fries: Miss Betty Boschen, Miss Louise Ryder, Miss Jackie Exton, Miss Betty Brown, Miss Prances Rosse, Miss Mary Lou Heavey, Miss Nancy Ansell, Miss Frances Nettleton, Miss Margaret Jeschke, Miss Charlotte Nichols, Miss Mathilde Griswold and Miss Ann Cor- nelius, all of Washington. Miss Margaret Caton of Brooklyn. N. Y., has been visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. William P. Caton of Woodlawn, Va. Mrs. Claude Swanson Semones was hostess at luncheon and bridge Tues- day at her home in Aurora Hills, Va. THRILLING VALUES! ~Thousand's of Hats to Choose From ~—One More Beautiful than the Other —All Headsizes: 21V to 24 —Every Hat One Price,1.25 in this ladderfront step-in of black or blue gabardine with white piping—or brown with New Shades in Spring Hosiery, $1.00 to $1.95 at Luncheon Today Ridgway. Red tulips were used effectively throughout the house, and on the | luncheon table an epergne holding | | red carnations, lilies of the valley, | blue mignonette and white candles | formed an attractive centerpiece, | Guests included Mrs. Cora Filley, Mrs. | Luther Steward, Mrs. Robert Russell, | Mrs. W. T. Pollard, Mrs. William H. Luckett, Mrs. L. T. -Rusmiselle of Washington and Mrs. Della Hulfish of Alexandria. | Mrs. La Rue wife of the Rev. | William La Rue, pastor of the Takoma | Park Baptist Church, is visiting rela- tives at West Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Breiden- | bach entertained from 3 to 7 o'clock Monday afternocn at their home in Bon Air, Va, in celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of Mrs. | Breidenbach’s parents, Mr. and Mrs | Henry Drollinger of Darlington, Ind., | who are now making their home with them. The 85 guests were entertained in two groups, friends in the com- lmunuy coming from 3 to § o'clock (Continued on Fourth Page.) Palter De Liso brings you the Charm of Springtime and a step of youthful zest beige $14.75 SOCIETY. e B—3 ’Diplomatic Corps By the Way— Beth Blaine ’ ID you ever take part in a “fish haul,” & “fish kill,” or meet face to face with mother and father dolphin and all the little dolphins? Personally, we never have had the experience, but some of our friends are doing just exactly all three of these things in Nassau right now. Another letter from the tropical isle this morning gives us the news that the young John Ryans threw a “fish haul” recently off their house, the Old Fort. This sport consists of gathering together a number of people, attired in bathing suits, giving them a huge fishing net and sending them out to wade into the shallow river to make a great haul of fish. It must be an exciting sport, for every one is warned in Nassau against the barracuda, which are most plentiful, and that day one of the nasty creatures made a dash between Mrs. Perry Beadleston and Mario di Zappola—fortunately without serious results. Hundreds of fish were caught, of all sizes and kinds. The “fish kill” takes places at night, and the darker the night, the better. The killers wade out into the river armed with search lights, which attract the “poor” fish, and then, if they are agile enough, they spear them! The natives invariably follow this event up with one of their famous dances to the strains of native songs. Our correspondent writes us of a fascinating three-day yachting trip to Spanish Wells, a village on Eleuthera island. In 1740 a group of Scotch Presbyterians set sail to escape religious persecution and landed on this island in the Bahamas. The inhabitants today are just as Scotch as the original settlers and they speak old English with such quaint phrases. No drinking, smoking or gambling is allowed, and no black is permitted on the island after sunset. Some one asked a little blue-eyed, golden-haired boy, about 11 years old, what he studied in arithmetic and he replied, “stocks and bonds and square root.”” Figure that out if you can! It was while cruising about this particular island last week that our friends came face to face with the dolphin family. In the clear water for an hcur or more the dolphins played tag and “you touch me” with the boat. Our writer says, “It was a sight so beautiful that on cold bleak days with mud and slush under foot I'm sure I will be able to close my eyes and conjure up the sight of the beau- tiful little harbor with the waves breaking on the coral reef in the distance—the vivid blues and greens and purples of the water, the Jflaming sunset and the dolphins with their graceful glistening bodies gliding and diving about us.” ‘ The letter continues: “Life in Nassau, after @ certain length of time, develops into the usual round of swimming, lunching, either in gay beach costumes, on the terrace of the Porcupine Club overlooking the ever-changing colors o the ocean and the curve of white sand leading to the world- famous Paradise Beach, or dressing properly in one’s neatest sport dress and lunching at the main Porcupine Club on the harbor side. The walk between the club and the beach is lovely. It is lined with cocoanut trees and one glimpses, behind tall hedges, the cream house of the popular Freddie Brices, called the Hutch.” Freddie's nickname is “Bunny,” and Leila Brice has some 300 ‘bunnies’ in her collection in the lovely, cool, long drawing room. They have been sent to her by friends from all over the world. They are of porcelain, metal or glass—some very fine and some amusing. “Further along the path between the Porcupine Club and the beach is the attractive house of pale pink plaster with turquoise blue shutters, of the popular young Bob Johnsons. He is the owner of Stormy Weather, the famous sailing yacht that has won so many prizes. Sir Frederick and Lady Jane Williams-Taylor have their house on the ocean, also Phillip Gosslet and Dr. and Mrs. Ayres. The Arthur Davies have a beautiful place next t the Porcupine Club, of which Mr. Davies is the president. “Nassau is filled with superb old houses. One of the most beautiful s that of the Arthur Vernays—this year leased to Mr. Hollander of Boston, who has with him a niece, Mrs. Hollander, and a nephew, Nelson Odman, and his lovely bride, Peg. The house is very large and, as there is no ariveway, one comes through the old gates and directly across a fine clipped lawn It is a strange feeling, as if one were playing a game, and the amazing par! is that it doesn’t seem to hurt the lawn in the slightest. The house is filled with the finest old Sheraton and Hepplewhite furniture, paintings that are gems, and old prints. The broad, cool verandas on both the first and second floors, are filled with comfortable chintz-covered chairs and sofas. Tea is usually served on the upper veranda, which gives a splendid view of the island, with the lakes in the distance.” ZIRKIN for FINE FURS LAST CALL!? CLEARAWAY FURS ¢ COATS and DRESSES Formerly 1 Raccoon Coat, size 16. 1 Russion Fitch Coat, size 16. 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