Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1937, Page 24

B—4 ¥x s OCIETY. Washington Residential Social Notes Miss Ethel du Pont Joined by Fiance Today. (Continued From Third Page) Mount Vernon, N. Y., with their young son have arrived for a visit and are stopping at the Wardman Park Hotel. Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor have gone to Florida, where they will sepnd a week with Mrs. Grosvenor's brother-in-law and sister, Dr. and Mrs. David Fairchild, in Coconut Grove, Miss Genevieve Hendricks has re- turned to the Capital after spending | several days in Roanoke, Va. where she was the guest of Mrs. De Moss ‘Taylor at her residence on Mill Mountain Mrs. George Oakley Totten, jr., has returned to Washington from New | York, where she held an exhibition of her paintings at the Architectural League. Mrs. Totten visited Miss Clarabelle Goodwin at Tudor City while in New York Mrs. David Allan Robertson will entertain at luncheon on Monday in | honor of Miss Frances Conner. The guests will be the heads of the resi- dence halls of Goucher College. Mr. John Colman Whitwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Whitwell of Lanier place, has recently been pro- moted to the position of assistant pro- fessor in the department of chemical engineering of Princeton University. Mr. Whitwell was graduated from the university in 1931 summa cum laude. | I\Irs‘vBliss Chairman Of Benefit Musicale For Hospital Clinic| l\[UCH interest is being shown in the musicale which the board of lady managers has planned for | the benefit of George Washington | University Hospital Tuesday after- noon at the Sulgrave Club. The pro- gram will be given by Mme. Malda | Dickinson, president of the society, to BY THE THE EVEN WAY— (Continued From Third Page.) Connecticut avenue way to No. are taking place before the dance. dinner hour. town. 9 Chevy Chase Circle, one will find that house ablaze with lights as Miss Eleanor Corby is entertaining at a small dance in_ honor of her sister, the former Justine May Corby, now Mrs. Ivan Franges, wife of the former secretary of the Yugoslav Legation. Miss Elsa Maxwell, it is said, is heading this way for the Morgan party, which is in honor of former United States Am- bassador to Germany and Mrs. James W. Gerard. Many dinners . _Included among the hosts and hostesses are the Austrian Minister and Mme. Prochnik, the Counselor of the British Embassy and Mrs. Mallet, the Counselor of the German Embassy and Frau Thomsen, and Baron Paul Schell when last seen was ‘“getting together” a few friends for the . The Charles Saints of the French Embassy had intended giving a dinner prior to the Morgan dance, but Charlie has been really quite ill with bronchitis and as yet is unable to go out. Mr. and Mrs. de Lancey Kountze, parents of Mrs. Bernard Harrison, have come down from New York to stop with their daughter in her house on N street, in old George- All in all, it looks as though there won’t be many dull moments from tomorrow noon on far, far into the night. Iowa State Society Reception and Dance The Iowa State Society of Washing- ton will hold a reception and dance this evening at the Shoreham Hotel at 8:30 o'clock. The speaker will be Mr. J. M. Hep- bron of Baltimore, nationally recog- nized criminologist and director of the Criminal Justice Commission. Mr. Hepbron i noted as an excellent speaker on the subject of criminology, a subject of great interest to the people of this country at the present time. Due to the inability of Senator L.J. attend, the meeting will be presided over by Mr. C. D. Cass, vice president of the society. Mrs. J. D. Le Cron, also vice presi- dent, will be in charge of the Reception Committee. Mrs. Le Cron will have assisting her Senator and Mrs. Guy Gillette, Senator Clyde L. Herring, Representative and Mrs. Lloyd Thurs- ton, Representative and Mrs. E. C. Eicher, Representative and Mrs. Fred Gilchrist, Representative ~ William Jacobsen and his mother, Mrs. B. M. Jacobsen, Representative and Mrs. | Fred Biermann, Representative and Mrs. Otha D. Wearin, Representative and Mrs. John Gwynne, Representative and Mrs. Vincent Harrington, Repre- sentative and Mrs. C. C. Dowell, Com- missioner Claude R. Porter, Justice and Mrs. F. D. Letts, Mr. and Mrs. William Ramseyer, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. | Jamieson, Mr. and Mrs, Karl Locs and Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Baldridge. Mr. Leo Peulger is in charge of the floor committee and will have assisting | Fani d’'Aulby, lyric soprano, and Miss Sylvia Meyer, harpist of the National | Symphony Orchestra, assisted by the Telephone Quartet. Mrs. Goring Bliss is chairman for the benefit, assisted by Mrs. Wilbur H. Collier, who as co-chairman has charge of tickets. The proceeds from the benefit will be used by the woman's board of the hospital to aid their work in providing improved equip- ment and facilities to help worthy dispensary patients, who receive ex- aminations and treatments from dis- pensary physicians without compen- sation. ‘The Italian Ambassador and Signora de Suvich are among those making reservations for the musicale and others who have taken tickets are the Greek Minister, Mr. Demetrios Sicilianos, Mrs. J. Charles Linthicum, Mrs. Tilman Bacon Parks, Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Mrs. Charles Stanley White, Mrs. William Cline Borden, Mrs. Daniel Le Ray Borden, Mrs. Walter A. Bloe- dorn, Mrs: Ernest Humphrey Daniel, Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman, Mrs. | Henry Parsons Erwin, Mrs. Clinton J. Tribby, Mrs. Eorace Fulton, Mrs, F. | Keehan, Mme. Cajigas, Mrs. M. B. | Hilton, Miss Margaret Delano Gage and Mrs. Carolyn S. Steohen. | Luncheon Given By 75th Club | Mrs. John R. Murdock, wife of Rep- | resentative Murdock of Arizona, pre- sided at the luncheon given Wednes-~ day by the Seventy-fifth Club in honor of the members of the Seventy- three and Seventy-four Club. Mrs. Murdock is president of the Seventy- fifth Club. 5 Among those at the luncheon were | Mrs. John A. Martin, Mrs. Sam Hobbs, | Mrs. Lister Hill, Mrs. Joe Starnes, Mrs. Fred M. Vinson, Mrs. Charles J. Colden, Mrs. Thomas S. Ford, Mrs. Laggard of Louisiana, Mrs. Carl Stefan, Mrs. Arthur W. Aleshire, sr.; Mrs. B. Carroll Reece, Mrs. Prentiss M. Brown, Mrs, Cabell of California, Mrs. Maury Maverick, Mrs. Scott W. Lucas, Mrs. John H. Overton, Mrs, David D. Terry, Mrs. Richard M. Dun- i be eaten with the entree or as him Mr. John Slacks, Mr. Gerald | Lyons, Mrs. Mavis Allen, Mrs. H. A.| Welsh, Miss Julia Wade, Mrs. Cath- | erine Herring, Mrs. Helen Snyder, Miss | Rosa Poling, Miss Blanche Schmidt, | Miss Gladys Brennan, Miss leona{ Adams, Miss Helen Kennedy, Mr. Tod Berlin, Mr. Frank Scott, Mr. Phillip | Walker, Mr. Ralph Byers and Mr. | Lawrence Maher. | Dancing and cards will begin at 10| o'clock and continue until 1 o’clock. Tea Planned For Miss Warner | Miss Jean Major and Miss Lina | Macatee will entertain at a tea Sun-| day in honor of Miss Constance War- | | ner, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Charles | T. Warner. Miss Warner has spent | the past year visiting in Japan. As- sisting at the tea table will be Mrs. William Dern, Miss Ann Croxton, Miss Susan Buford and Miss Anne | Bonner. WEEK-END SPECIAL! Friday, Saturday and Sunday Deliciously Different MARTHA WASHINGTON RASPBERRY SALAD ICE 70c - A new frozen delicacy that mey dessert. 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Grigsby, national president of the fraternity, will head the recelving line. With her will be Mrs. Hendricks, Mrs. McLeod, Miss Mildred Clements, president of Alpha Pi Chapter, and Miss Arline Mc- Laughlin. Mrs. Eva Page, Mrs. Betsy Ross Bevis, Mrs. Myrtle Collins and Mrs. Claribel Welsh will pour tea. Among the visitors expected are Tri Deltas from Washington and Baltimore and members of the facul- ty of the University of Maryland. Play to Benefit Crippled Children Maeterlinck’s immortal play, “The Blue Bird,” will be staged tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Roose- velt High School Auditorium by 60 young thespians from the Children's Studio of Drama. The proceeds of this benefit per- formance will be used to cover some of the more pressing needs of the ‘Weightman School for Crippled €hil- dren. Last year Minnie Frost Rand’s play, “The Pot of Gold,” was given by this studio for the same charity. The sponsors include the Speaker of the House and Mrs. Willlam B. Bank- head, Senator Hattle T. Caraway, Senator and Mrs. James J. Davis, jr.; Representative and Mrs. Allard H. Gasque, Representative and Mrs. J. Hardin Peterson, Representative and Mrs. John R. Murdock, Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, Secretary to the President and Mrs. Steven T. Early, Secretary to the Presi- dent and Mrs. Marvin H. MacIntyre, former Representative and Mrs. Ed- ward C. Moran, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Hurja, Mrs. Larz Anderson, Miss Sybil Baker, Mrs. John S. Bennet, Mrs. Lloyd W. Biddle, Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Bier, Col. and Mrs. Edward Goring Bliss, Mrs. Minnie P. Briggs, Mrs. Evelyn Bright Buckley, Dr. and Mrs. Louls B. Castell, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leonard Chambers, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Colbert, Mrs. Maria Croker, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, Mr. and Mrs. Barton Embry, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Etz and Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest. Also Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Fry, Mrs. Edna Knight Gasch, Dr. and Mrs. Custis Lee Hall, Mr. and Mrs. J. 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Miss Kaufl;mn to Wed Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kaufman an- nounce the engagement of their daughter, Carlyn Harriet, to Mr. Sol Greenberg of this city. 5}/ HU G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1937. SOCIETY. — ey ey e S e - SYbelY. Countess Tolstoy to Give Lecture Here Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, daugh- ter and private secretary to Count Leo Tolstoy, Russia’s great man of letters, who has been conducting a lecture tour in the South, will come to Wash- ington to give a lecture at the Wash- ington Club Friday evening, April 23. Proceeds from the lecture will go to the Washington branch of the Rus- sian Children’s Welfare Society. “Tolstoy and the Russian Writers” is the subject on which Countess Tol- stoy will speak, illustrating her lecture with pictures of her father in his great library, on the estate where he carried out his famous agricultural experiments, and where he did much of his work. 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