Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1937, Page 21

SOCIETY. — THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1937. SOCIETY. 2x B—3 Social Calendar Marked With Many Varied and Informal Activities The Secretary of State Host at Luncheon Today For President ‘Quezon Distinguished Visitor From Philippines Is| Being Extensively Feted While in the Capital—Other Official News. THE Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, entertained at lunch- eon today in honor of the President of the Philippine Com- monwealth, Mr. Manuel Quezon. President Quezon will be the guest of honor at dinner tonight, given by the congressional group which represented the United States at his inauguration. The Chilean Ambassador, Senor Don Manuel Trucco, will enter- tain at a cocktail party this afternoon in honor of the second secre- tary of the Embassy, Senor Don Fernando Illanes, who will leave the middle of March for an absence of several months. The Italian Ambassador and Donna Matilde de Suvich were present yesterday afternoon at the meeting of the Italy-America Soclety in the grand ball room of the Mayflower. Signora Olivia Rossetti Agresti, distinguished writer and journalist, gave a most interesting illustrated lecture on the historical development of Italian gardens, beginning with the gardens of imperial Rome during the classic period and including modern Italian gardens. Col. George B. McClellan, president of the society, presided. Among others in attendance, in addition to members of the Embassy staff, were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Princess Margaret Boncompagni, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, Col. and Mrs. Henry Parsons Erwiny Col. and Mrs. Edgar E. Hume, Miss Alys Downing, Mrs. William Fitch Kelley, Col. and Mrs. Robert H. Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Harriman, Baroness von Below, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose, Miss Margaret Gage, Miss Janet Rich- ards, Mrs. James Carroll Frazer, Mrs. James Griswold Wentz, Mrs. Willoughby Chesley, Mrs. J. C. Fremont, Mrs. Louis Caldwell, Mrs. James W. Adams, Mrs. Carl Casey, Miss Virginia Hunt, Miss Angelica Remey, Mrs. David Meade Lea, Miss Sarah Lee, Miss Apn Whitman, Mrs. W. P. Tams, Mrs. Charles Hendley, Brig. Gen. Wil- liam H. Burt, Mr. Charles Mason Remey, Mr. Sebastian Valverdi, Col. J. F. Reynolds Landis. Col. Merwin C. Bucky, Rev. Meade Bolton MacBryde and Col. John P. Hains. Mme. Prochnik, wife of the Au@man Minister, will be at home this afternoon in the Legation. The Egyptian Minister, Mohamed Amine Youssef, who, with the agricultural attache of the legation, Mahmoud Helmy, who were guests yesterday of Mr. John L. Morris, executive secretary of the Miami Chamber of Commerce, on a tour of the Redland district, will leave Florida today for California. Maj. and Mrs. William C. Roberts have as their guests at the Wardman Park Hotel Col. Arthur G. Campbell, U. S. A, and Will Attend Coronation Ceremonies & i $ MISS MARGOT GARRETT, Daughter of Mr. George Angus Garrett, who is in New York pre- paratory to sailing tomorrow for the crowning of King George VI. —Harris-Ewing Photo. Reside_:n_tial SQcial News Mrs. Aldace Walker Joins Mrs. Davies in Boca Grande. “MRS. DUNCAN E. CAMERON, Who, with her daughter, Miss Elsie Quinby, will sail shortly for England to attend the coronation ceremonies.—Hessler Photo. ORE information comes to our desk of the elaborate prepara- tions being made for the season in London, which will be | a longer and more thrilling one than usual. Read carefully, if you are planning to “take in” London this season and most of all if you are planning to be presented at court. It is, indeed, sad that there is more truth than poetry in the statement ‘thal “not one woman in fifty knows how to walk properly.” Our i suggestion is to at least learn how to walk before you arrive in England, and if you have any extra time try a curtsy or two! LONDON (#).—Society, with a capital “S,” is preparing for the longest season London has known in generations.. So many coronation festivities have been scheduled for this Summer that the season will begin this month and last into the early days of August. Already dowagers are advertising in the “agony” columns of the newspapers. Soon offers such as “Duke’s daughter will chaperon young girl for London corona= tion season” will become common. Mayfair is widely split over the propriety of this matter of fees for presentation at court. But the court takes no official notice ofthe fact that a lady may have received a good round check for presenting a debutante to their majesties. The court recognizes only two barriers to presentation—guilt in a divorce suit (which bars any cne from being received at Buck- ingham Palace at all) and spinsterhood (which seems a less clear reason). Fathers of debutantes grumble that the payment of anything up to $10,000 to the chaperon is the least of the expenses with which they are faced in launching their daughters into society. Sometimes they are called upon to help with the upkeep of the chaperon’s town house, they must provide a limousine and chauffeur, and supply both chaperon and debutante with a whole wardrobe of expensive clothes for every conceivable occasion. Expeditions to the smartest events of the season—polo at Hurlingham and Rane- lagh; the races at Ascot and Goodwood; Wimbledon for the tennis: Lords for the cricket; Henley for the regatta—make many a father dive deeper and deeper into his pockets. Also coming-out balls at West End hotels and Mayfair residences, scores of cocktail parties, dinner parties and receptions are in order Florists, dressmakers and hairdressers are already busy and elderly dowagers and former ballerinas hold classes on the eve of the courts, teaching awkward debutantes the art of the graceful curtsy and correct deportment. These debutante classes are a remarkable feature of the social season. With several yards of material pinned to her waist by safety pins and a piece of cardboard balanced on her head, the debutante solemnly walks to an empty chair (symbolizing the King on his throne) and practices the curtsy until she perfects the art. “Our lessons usually begin by teaching a girl to walk” ex- plained the head of one debutante school. “Not one woman in fifty knows how to walk properly. And modern girls are not accus- | tomed to sinking upon their knee: hey tend to overbalance.” | The secret of a perfect curtsy, the experts say. is to keep the body erect, bending the head in obeisance, for only a moment on reaching the curtsy’s lowest point Modern courts are not the ordeal for debutantes they were i Queen Victoria’s day. Now they curtsy only once, but in Victori reign they had to “dip” before each member of royal famil in turn. Women in court circles take their task as chaperons seriously, | One London newspaper raised a hornet’s nest sug |was a “racket.” The chaperons, however, ar Y | penny they charge hey have to be mott ss, hostess earn ever and companion rolled into one, they get little fun out of the d they are expected to work Mrs. Campbell. Maj. and Mrs. George Stetekluh of Aurora Hills, Va., had as| . Harry Kirsner of the Jefferson guests over the week end Capt RS. ALDACE WALKER, who has been in Washington for a short time, has gon: to Florida, where she will join mother, Mrs. Emlen Knight her Barracks, St. Louis, Mo.. and his son, Mr. Sheldon Kirsner, who | Davies, at Boca Grande. They will go has been attending Millard Preparatory School in Washington and | later this week to Palm Beach for the who is returning to St. Louis with his father. remainder of the season, returning to iWashingwn in the Spring. Maj. Benjamin Bowering, U. 8. A., C. A. C., of New York City iS| yme. J. de Morinni of Paris, France, spending a few days at the Martinique. | who is visiting in this country, is the guest of Mrs. J. Mark Baldwin i.. her Lieut. R. C. Moureau. U. S. N., of Great Lakes, IIl, and Lieut. 'apartment at the Wardmar. Park Ho- R. E. Permut, U. S. N, of Butte, Mont., are stopping at the Mar- | tel during her stay in Washington | tinique. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Founders’ Banquet The eighty-first annual founders’ day banquet of the Sigma Alpha Epsi- lon Fraternity will be held at the Na- tional Press Club this evening at 8 c'clock. The guests of honor will include Mr. Merle Thorpe, toastmaster; the Secre- tary of Commerce, Mr. Daniel C. Ro- per; Senator Pat Harrison, Senator Key Pittman, Senator Nathan Bach- man, Senator Richard B. Russell, Representative Edward E. Cox, Repre- sentative Walter C. Chandl sentative Arthur D. Heal sentative Frank L. Kloeb. Representa- tive Lawrence Lewis, Representative John Ridley Mitchell. Representative l‘l\'lmc. Franges Plans ! Visit to Capital ! Mme. Manges, wife of Dr. Ivan Franges, formerly attached tc the Former Senator and Mrs. Da is El- kins have issued invitatims for dinner | Tuesday evening. March 16. | _ Mrs. Victoria Faber Stevenson is in | Minneapolis, Minn., where she pave a !lecture Friday at the University of Minnesota. | Yugoslav Legation here, will arrive in | | New York today aboard the Queen Mary. She will be met by her mother, | Mrs. William S. Corby, who recently returned to her Chevy Chase home | after a visit in Southern California. Mrs. Corby and her daughter, Mme. Franges, will come to Washington later in the week and Mme. Franges will be with her mother and sister, Mrs. Corby and Miss Eleanor Corby, in their home on Chevy Chase Circle ! for a few weeks. Mme. Franges will join Dr. Franges | in Belgrade, where he is on duty at the foreigh office, sailing in the late Spring. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Darby have returned from several weeks' stay in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Ward of White River Junction, Vt. have ar- rived in Washington from Orlando, | Fla., and are at the Shoreham for a brief stay while visiting Mr. and Mrs. | Harry Hall and Mrs. George Earnshaw | of Riverdale, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Robert von Moschisker of Philadelphia have arrived in Wash- ington and are at the Shoreham for a brief stay. Mr. von Moschisker was will be hosts at a small reception in | | | | Chevy Chase Club { will be a style show. Baltimore, Md., will have Prof. George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard as their house guest April 6 and 7. On the evenings of both those days Prof. Kit- tredge will lecture in Catherine Hooper Hall. On April 6 Dr. and Mrs. Rob- ertson will entertain at dinner in honor of their guest and April 7 they his honor. Mr. and Arthur Clarendon Smith of Cleveland Park will spend the week in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the | Netherland Plaza | Mrs. Smith will be the guest of (See RESIDENTIAL, Page B-4) Membership Meeting The Chevy Chase Women's Demo= cratic Club will hold a special mem- bership meeting at the home of Mrs. | Curtis Walker March 15 at 8 o'clock | in the evening. Part of the program Any ladies de- | sirous of becoming affiliated with the | club are cordially invited. Old Paintings Relined and Restored The Charm of Age Retained Veerhoff leaving for her home in Buffalo. | | Gen. John Beaumont |Play Will Benefit To Wed Mrs. Tucker Brig. Gen. John C. Beaumont, U. S. M. C.. yesterday obtained a license in New York to marry Mrs. Helen Fer- guson Tucker, 1026 Sixteenth street, according to an Associated Press dis- patch. In the license application Gen. Beaumont gave his age as 57 and that of Mrs. Tucker as 45. Mrs. Tucker was born in Nankmg, China, the daughter of John C. Ferguson. They said they plan to be married in the | Church of the Transfiguration, New York, on April 3. Gen. Beaumont, who recently re- turned from the Orient, where he com- manded the 4th Marines, is a widower. His first wife died in 1917. Gen. Beau- mont gave his address as the Army and Navy Club here. Mrs. H;'de Hostess Mrs. Starr Eaton Hyde. who has been visiting her parents. Representa- tive and Mrs. Charles A. Eaton, at 2400 Sixteenth street, entertained at a supper party last night prior to | ciety here. Fund for Free Milk | The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick’s Players will present a play March 19, which will be open to the general pub- | lic, for the benefit of the milk fund, | which enables free milk to be distrib- uted by an organibzation of women to the poor and undernourished children of the District The play is usually | reserved for members, but this year is open to the public in order to aid the milk fund. Mr. Thomas Brahany is the author of the production and Mr. | George H. O'Connor heads the cast. Luncheon Tomorrow Honors Mrs. Boulton | Mrs. Charles D. Walcott will enter- tain at luncheon at the Sulgrave Club tomorrow in honor of Mrs. Laura Boulton of Chicago. The guests will be members of the Washington group of the Society of Women Geographers. Mrs. Boulton is an authority on Africa and African music and recently spoke before ‘the National Geographic So- | !parties they take their charges to, a all hours of the day and night. “It is perfectly true that a chaperon may take her protege to a dressmaker who gives commission in cash “But why ducer,” admitted one. not?” The she needs—the best of their kind. “If you want to stop the so-called social racket you must reorganize society: cut out the monarct and aristocracy, and eliminate v, diplomacy, th hu enjoys these things and covets them.” ind to the intro- gets the clothes plutocracy nan nature which The Misses Hallam At Home Sunday Miss Anna Maud Hallam, who re- cently gave a series of lectures at Sul- grave Club sponsored by Mrs. Claude A. Swanson and a group of prominent women and social life, is received Hallam, sci- present-day SN DS TTSDOOOT S Charles Plumley, Representative Pete Jarman, Representative Byron N. Scott, Representative Vincent M. Miles, Mr. | William W. Arnold and Rear Admiral | Harry G. Hamlet. | Fifty members of the George Wash- | Mr. and Mirs. Herschel Bliss Rud- ington Chapter and about 200 alumni | dick of Ardmore, Pa., announce the will also attend. The committee in | engagement of their daughter Gladys charge of arrangements includes Mr. |to Mr. Shaler Stidham of Philadel~ William Crooks, Mr. John D. Wibby | phia, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. and Mr. Allen Hubbard. Harrison Stidham of Washington. Stidham-Ruddick Yes . . . CAPE DRESSES are authentically brilliant. PICTURE YOU in this ENSEMBLE . . . swinging wool cape with military type shoulders and bow effect collar, worn over a pure silk dress printed with TINY ELEPHANTS. Navy cape with green print. Black cape with black and white 525.50 Other Cape Dresses in Silk or Wool $14.95 $16.95 $19.95 Engagement Told | former chief ] istice of Pennsylvania. 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