Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1937, Page 19

SOCIETY. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1937. SOCIETY. Social Activities Again Are in Full Sway With Easter The President and Mrs. Roosevelt Are Ho‘sits at Egg Rolling Tradition Carried Out on South Lawn of White House When Children Greet Chief Executive. RS. ROOSEVELT will share honors with Lady Tweedmuir, M wife of the Governor General of Canada, at luncheon Thursday, when the Secretary of Labor, Miss Frances Perkins, will entertain for them. Lady Tweedmuir and the Governor General will arrive tomorrow afternoon for a few day’s stay at the White House. This afternoon the President and Mrs. Roosevelt will greet their youthful guests for the egg rolling and will stand on the south portico and watch the fun on the south lawn. Mrs. Roosevelt will make another tour of the grounds following the President’s greet- ing. Early this morning the President’s wife made a tour of the lawn accompanied by her young grandson, William Donner Roose= velt, who, with his mother, Mrs. Donner Roosevelt, is a guest at the White House. Following this brief tour, Mrs. Roosevelt held her press conference, after which she went for a horsepack ride before luncheon. Her guest at lunch was Mrs. William Phillips, wife of the United States Ambassador to Italy, who is in this country for & brief visit. Tomorrow evening an informal dinner will be given for those who are invited to attend the formal presentation of the National Achievement Award to Katharine Cornell, which will be made tomorrow evening in the east room. The governor general of Canada and Lady Tweedmuir will be the guests of honor at dinner Wednesday evening of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. The following evening the visitors from the North will be entertained by the Canadian Minister and Lady Marler and will leave immediately after the dinner party to return to Ottawa. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will attend the society circus at Fort Myer Friday evening and will entertain their guests for the pageant at dinner before the show. In their party will be Dr. C. K. Leith, famous geologist of the University of Wisconsin, and Mrs. Leith. Mr. John Roosevelt will join his parents for the week end, coming for the appearance of the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard, and will assist as host at the luncheon Sunday which the President and Mrs. Roosevelt will give for members of the cast. Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., will not come for the party Sunday, as he will be in New York for the dinner party which he will give for his ushers Saturday evening. The dinner is given this far in advance of his marriage to Miss Ethel du Pont, which will take place the end of June, as many of the ushers are members of the Harvard crew and will be in training and unable to attend parties. Mrs. Roosevelt will hold her weekly press conference Monday morning, April 5, at 11 o’clock. The Minister of El Salvador and Senora de Castro were hosts last night at a buffet supper and dance in celebration of the birth- day anniversary of their daughter, Senorita Helen de Castro. The hostess wore a gown of black lace and her daughter had on a flowered gown on white background. Assisting them during the evening were Senora de Puga, wife of the air attache of the Chilean Embassy; Senora de Castro Beeche, wife of the Minister of Costa Rica; Senorita Conchita Gonzalez, who makes her home at the Legation, and Mrs. Mark Shapiro. The rooms of the Legation were decorated with vases of lilacs and Spring carnations in pastel shades and the dining room table nad as a centerpiece a bowl of jonquils, daffodils and bachelor buttons in blue and yellow. After supper there was dancing in the drawing room and large hall. Among the 80 guests present were members of the diplomatic corps, as well as younger friends of the honor guests. The Minister of Honduras and Senora de Lozano will be the guests in whose honor the first secretary of the Honduran Legation and Senora de Caceres will entertain at dinner at the Shoreham tonight. Representative and Mrs. William J. Fitzgerald of Connecticut have as guests for a short visit at their home in Club Manor Estates, Arlington Ridge, Va., Mr. Joseph M. Tone, the labor commissioner of Connecticut, and Mrs. Tone; their daughter, Miss Mary Tone; also their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Leo McCauhey, and their small daughter, Delphine McCauhey, all of New Haven, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Tone and their family will leave this afternoon for Staunton, Va., where they will visit their son, Mr. Emmett Tone, who is a student at the Staunton Military Academy. Representative and Mrs. Fitzgerald also have with them for a fortnight’s visit the latter’s nephew, Mr. Thomas Hynds of Norwich, Conn. Representative Virginia Jenckes will entertain at dinner this evening in the palm room of 2400 Sixteenth street, where she makes her home. There will be 24 present. The attache of the Egyptian Legation and Mme. Zoulfikar and Mr. Moustafa Amine Youssef, son of the Egyptian Minister, are spending a few days in New York, where they are stopping at the Ambassador Hotel. The Undersecretary of the Interior and Mrs. Charles West will have with them next week end Mr. James Humphrey of Great Falls, Mont., who is a student at Dartmouth College. Club to Be Feted. 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Mr. Leo Paulger is chairman of the Floor Committee and will have assist- ing him Mr. John Slacks, Miss Mavis Allen, Miss Julia Wade, Miss Cath- erine Herring, Mr. Gerald Lyons, Miss Gladys Brennen, Mrs. Helen Snyder, Miss Rosa Poling, Miss Leone Adair, Mr. Ted Berlin, Miss Helen Kennedy, Mr. Frank Scott, Mr. Phillip Walker, Dr. Sterling Bockover and Mr. Ralph Byers. Missouri State Society To Fete D. A. R. Delegates. MRS. BENNETT CHAMP CLARK is chairman of the Reception Committee of the Missouri State Society which will entertain for Mis- souri delegates to the D. A. R. Con- gress on April 22, at 9 o'clock at the Mayflower. The committee will consist of members of the D. A. R. from Mis- souri now residing in the District of Columbia and its environs. On March 19 the Missouri Society gave a reception in honor of Gen. and Mrs. Malin Craig and other former Missourians now officers in the Army and their wives. Michigan Society To Entertain April 16. REPRESENTATIVE GEORGE A, DONDERO, president, and Repre- sentative John D. Dingell, vice presi- dent, announce that the last ‘“get- together” dance of the season will be held by the Michigan State Society on Priday evening, April 16, in the Continental Hotel. Mr. Donald Luxford is chairman of the Dance Committee and Miss Elsie Gould vice chairman. Others on the committee are Mr. Manning Shaw, Organization Mrs. Lester Hundt on the mount she will enter in the hunter trials to be held at Bradley Farms, April 10. Mr. Gerard B. Dobben, Mr. Alvin Meissner, Mr. O. J. Dompierre, Mr. Fillmore Stolpe, Mr. Harold Toynton | and Mrs. E. Contee Meredith. Invitations are being extended to all members of the Michigan delega- tion in Congress and their wives to act as patrons and patronesses for the dance. Card tables will be furnished for those not desiring to dance, and a handsome door prize is being donated by members of the Executive Com- mittee. All residents of Michigan and their | friends invited to attend. are cordially South Carolina Society Arranges Supper Dance. 'HE final supper dance for the season of the South Carolina State Society will be held Friday evening, April 16, at the Shoreham Hotel from 9 to 1 o'clock. The society is calling this the cherry blossom ball and it is ex- pected to be the most widely attended and popular event of the season for the large number of sons and daugh- ters of the Palmetto State now resid- ing in Washington. In addition to these, quite 8 number are expected to come up from South Carolina for the occasion. Mr. Hugh E. Phillips is president of the society, with Edgar Morris, presi- dent of the Washington Board of Trade, first vice president; Charles E. Jackson, deputy commissioner of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, second vice president, and J. Austin Latimer, special assistant to Post- master General, third vice president. Christmas Mail Costs. 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Emmons, took place today at high | noon in St. Alban's Church, the Rev. Dr. Charles T. Warner officiating. Mr. ‘Walter Nash, organist of the church, played a program preceding the cere- mony. ! The bride, who was given in mar- riage by her father, wore a navy blue sheer dress made with a bolero jacket of white all-over embroidered organdy, & large navy blue leghorn hat and carried an arm bouquet of white roses and sweet peas. Miss Eleanor Mary Neuland was Washington's Authority on Cleaning CURTAINS AND DRAPES sy HAND oW LAUNDRY 1405 12th Street N.W. NOrth 0354 The bull-dogged Roadability of the CORD Front Drive talks to the He-Man in his own language It's the gamest of cars. It relishes work —thrives on it. No man can resist its road pluck. Flat on its frame in hub-deep going, like a steel muscled wrestler breaking a head-lock, it has the power in the front wheels to free itself. You can depend on it! WARRINGTON MOTOR CAR COMPANY 2035 17th Street, N. W. AUBURN—Distributors—CORD. % | Mrs. J. M. Ladd and her fa- vorite mount, which she will ride in the hunter trials, April 10—Underwood & Un- Hugh Bradford Emmons, brother of the bridegroom. Mr. and Mrs. Emmons will make their home in Washington. Miss Linnane Bride Today of Mr. Burdette. ‘HE marriage of Miss Mary Cath- erine Linnane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Linnane, to Mr. Ernest Vincent Burdette, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Burdette, took *+ B3 Holidays Residential Washington | Social News 'Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller and Daugh- ter Here. RS. GEORGE MACCOUL- LOCH MILLER will arrive this afternoon from New York with her eldest daughter, Miss Pamela Tower, and tomorrow will go to Middieburg, where Miss Tower will take examinations at Fo School. Mrs. Miller, elder dau of Mrs. Henry Payne Whitney and late Mr. Whitney, will return to Aik 8. C., tomorrow night to join M Miller. For the past few years and Mrs. Miller and their have spent the Winters at While in Washington Mrs. Miller i stopping at the Carlton. Mrs. Fred M. Thompson has re- turned to Washington f ne t consecutive year and th son, and is at the Sr returned on the Columbus f around South America, via t of Magellan. About the first of June she w the Capital for her Summer ho Cape Elizabeth, Me, her permanent residenc Me. Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. have arrived in Washingto: Easter holidays and are ham. Later they Mrs. Vernon Gowi luncheon and cc home on Lewis on Thursday. Al Mrs. J. W. Gibs Hilldrop of Washingtor Porter and Mrs. E of Arlington, Va Mrs. Hugh A. J Ann Jones of Au Richard D. Gowin, ) Gowin and Miss Caroly of Vienna. Mrs. J. S. B es and Miss Mar Miss Renee Beard Hostess at Tea Miss Renee Beard of Chevy Chase Md., entertained about 50 guests at tea yesterday from 4 to 6 o'clock Those who were present were Lt members of the Phi Chi Omicr Sorority at American Univer: T Miss Beard is a student, and a n ber of girls from B sda and Cr Chase, who are home from college for their Easter vacation Miss Jane Dunbar, a fre Gettysburg College for Wo (See WEDDINGS, Page B-4) Kitty Wood and Miss Mar baugh presided at the tea t: . Presenting EDDIE ELKINS AND HIS ORCHESTRA ... Don and Sally Jennings Dancing Delightfully for You. . « « Sally Evans—in Songs Luncheon From $1.00 Dinner From $2.00 After 10 P. M. C except Friday over 50c Plus Tax and Saturday, then $1.00 Plus Tax. 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