Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1940, Page 23

SOCIETY. Mrs. Roosevelt Receives Award for Social Work At New York Tonight Polish Envoy Host to Red Cross Workers; French Ambassador Gives Dinner Party at Embassy Mrs. Roosevelt was to leave this afternoon by plane for New York where this evening she will be the guest of honor at dinner at the Hotel Astor and will receive the first annual award of The Nation for dis- tinguished service in the cause of American social progress. Before going to New York Mrs. Roosevelt attended the annual rummage sale of the Army and Navy Relief and the Flower Mart at the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul. The Polish Ambassador, Count Jerzy Potocki, was host yesterday afternoon in the Embassy to about 200 of the workers in the Polish unit Columbia Chapter of the American Red Cross. The Ambassador was assisted by Mme. Kwapiszewska, wife of the counselor of the Embassy, and other members of the staff and their wives, Mme. Poratzewska and Mrs. Leon Cochrane. The French Ambassador, Count de Saint Quentin, was host at dinner last evening, entertaining in the Embassy on Kalorama road. The Am- bassador will entertain guests at luncheon Thursday. ‘The Brazilian Ambassador and Senhora de Martins gave a reception last evening at the Embassy in honor of the brilliant Brazilian singer, Bidu 8ayao, who earlier had sung at the Pan-American Union concert. Fol- lowing the reception a buffet supper was held for about 100 guests. At the concert, where the Marine Band Orchestra was part of the program, Dr. Leo S. Rowe, director general of the Pan-American Union, greeted the guests. Among those in the audience were the Mexican Am- bassador and Senora de Castillo Najera, the Chilean Ambassador and Senora de Cabero, the Turkish Ambassador and Mme. Ertegun, the Jap- anese Ambassador and Mme. Horinouchi, the Panama Ambassador and Senora de Boyd, Senator Arthur Capper, Senator Joseph Guffy, Senator and Mrs. Elbert D. Thomas, Rear Admiral and Mrs. W. S. Anderson, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Benjamin H. Dorsey, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Ross T. Mclntire, Gen. and Mrs. Dion Williams and Gen. and Mrs. Frank T. Hines. Mme. Rajamaitri, wife of the retiring Minister of Thai, was the guest in whose honor Mrs. Walter Wyatt entertained at luncheon yesterday, when the ranking guests were Mrs. Henry A. Wallace and Senora de Boyd. Others at the luncheon were Mrs. Alfred Lafayette Ridings, known professionally as Grace Dupre Ridings, who with Dr. Ridings will return | to her Texas home today; Mrs. Laurence F. Arnold, Mrs. David Satterfield, Mrs. Henry F. Grady and Mrs, Daniel C. Roper. Later Mme. Rajamaitri accompanied the Minister to the White House, where they had tea with M#s. ‘Roosevelt, the last before they leave May 21 for their homeland. Following their brief visit with the Presi- dent’s wife the Minister and Mme. Rajamaitri were honor guests at tea given by the Adviser on Political Relations to the State Department and | Mrs. Stanley K. Hornbeck. Mrs. Stanley F. Reed, wife of Mr. Justice Reed, met with members of her Reception Committee yesterday afternoon at the Mayflower Hotel w‘ plan for the Community Chest League’'s County Fair to be held May 21. THE EVENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. MISS LOIS MADELINE MASON. Harold E. Mason of Arlington, have announced her engagement to Mr. Herman Holloway, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Holloway of Richmond, Va. —Harris & Ewing Photo. Mr. and Mrs, Henry Parsons Er- win have returned to Arbremont, Present were many of the more than 50 women prominent in social, civic and welfare activities, who have accepted responsibility to act as hostesses for the event. The scene of the fair will be the grounds of the Charles Carroll Glover residence at 4200 Massachusetts avenue. The volunteer hostesses will be responsible for welcoming the guests who turn out for the outdoor fair and for seeing that they are altended; by guides who will point the way along the exhibit promenade, as well as | informing them of the sequence of the entertainment events: | The many-faceted welfare program of Chest agencies will be pre- | fented in a lively and entertaining fashion between the hours of 2 and 6 o'clock, and the program will be arranged in order to avoid duplication and provide the greatest variety and intetest. More than 400 children will engage in various demonstrations and entertainment designed to depict the kind of opportunity, guidance and protection provided through Chest agencies concerned with the welfare of the child in the-community. | Mrs. Reed presided at the meeting. Reports were made by Mrs. | Charles Carroll Glover, jr., chairman of the Guide Committee; Mrs. James ' Clement Dunn, chairman of the Refreshment Committee, and Mrs. Mont- | gomery Blair, jr., chairman of the Motor Corps. Miss Gere Dell Sale Named Princess For Festival Miss Gere Dell Sale, sophomore at American University, has been appointed by Dean George Woods as prineess at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival at Win- 1 < Mrs. Martin Mendelsohn, is chair- :l;:'sv.er, aaemomonsand | man of reservations and Mrs. Sidney Miss Sale left today for the fes- | Lust general chairman. tivai. A round of festivities has Phillip been planned to follow the coro- nation, among which are lunch- 1727 L 4 Doors East THREE-DAY FINAL Annual Banquet Plans The annual mothers’ and daugh- | Sisterhood of the Washington He- Mother’s Day, Brighton Hotel. | gram is being arranged by Mrs. May 12, at omon will award prizes. reception by Senorita Liliian Somoza, who is Queen Shenan- doah 17th. There also will be a petal ball and a court ball. | Mrs. John Steck of Winchester | will entertain at luncheon. | Miss Sale is a great-grandniece | of Gen. Alfred Sidney Johnston | of Civili War fame, and is an F.F. V., being a direct descendant | of Cornelius Sale of Essex Coun- | their home here, after an extended stay in Florida, where they were guests of Mrs. Erwin's mother, Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett. Mrs. Erwin will spend the week end in New York visiting her sub-debutante daughter, Miss Eileen Erwin, who attends school at Dobbs Ferrf. Mr. and Mrs. David St. Pierre Gaillard, brother-in-law and sister | of Mrs. Erwin, dre remaining in Florida for a longer stay with Mrs. Blodgett, who also has her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett, 2nd. of New York, as her guests. Mr. and Mrs. Blodgett re- cently returned from -« South Sea cruise. Mrs. T. Septimus Austin and her daughter, Miss Madeline Austin, are lingering at Miami Beach. An- other Washingtonian in Florida is { Mr. Charles Mason Remey, who en- ertained guests recently at a “trail- er tea.” Mr. Remey, who has been ters’ banquet, sponsored by the 1motormg in the South and West | with his trailer, and who was ac- | brew Congregation, will be held on | companied by his butler-chauffeur, | 3424 Thirtieth street spent the week the | served sandwiches and cakes, made | end at the Holmhurst Hotel in At- A children’s pro- | on the trailer stove, with iced coffee, | lantic City. fresh strawberries and an orange Garfield Kass and Mrs. Murray Sol- | punch. Other Washington residents, re- | cently returned from Florida include Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Folger, Mr. ‘and Mrs. Charles De Vere Drayton, -|.oui8e St. N.W. of Conn. Ave. CLEARANCE SALE 35 SPRING DRESSES AND UNLINED COATS, $5.95 35 SPRING DRESSES, $8.95 125 SPRING DRESSES, $10.95 AND $12.95 (Werd $16.95 te $35.00) ugs o eanged? { Reach for a phone . EXTRAORDINARY SPRING CLEARANCE Mich.4300 onan e Oriental Rugs Carefully and Expertly Cleaned M_Streei Northwest and VITALITY 2813 REDINGOTES, $15.00 Other dresses proportionately reduced ALL MILLINERY HALF PRICED Due te These Give-Away Prices All Sales Are VALUES IN OUR SALE QUEEN QUALITY Residential Social Notes Mr.and Mrs. Henry P. Erwin Return From Extended Stay in Florida Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr.; Mrs. Istrence Baker and Mr. and Mrs. Hope Darneille. | Miss Dorothy Tirrell, who has | been visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Sebring at Sebring, Fla., is return- | ing shortly to the Capital. Mrs. Frank Mulkern entertained 20 guests at luncheon today at the | Shoreham Hotel in honor of Mrs. | Charles P. Keyser. Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cuthbert- son received last evening at a recep- tion in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. The party was held at 2206 Evarts | street N.E,, from 8 to 11 o'clock. Mr. Elio Bondi of Rome, son of Mr. and Mrs. Italo Bondi, is the guest |of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Hoover and their daughter, Miss Lora- Marie Hoover, at their home, 2230 California street. Mr. Bondie, who arrived Thursday aboard the Conti di Savoia, will leave shortly to visit friends in Havana. Mr. Charles H. Stephenson of | Miss Frances Bradley, daughter |of Mr. and Mrs. John N. Bradley of Burnt Mills Hills, Md.. entertained at a dinner party Friday evening. W < 3, in D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, MAY ‘1, '1940. By the Way— Beth Blain, A day in New York—April in Paris is nice, we agree, but to us there is really no place quite like our own New York in the spring. The Fifth avenue shops are ablaze with the loveliest new spring clothes—flowered prints, sheer navy blue and black gowns, with perky frilled collars and cuffs, hats that are as adorable as they are silly, and in the florists’ win~ dows whole dogwood trees in full bloom, and masses of jonquils and tulips and white and pink hyacinths, After a day of pleasant but rather frantic shopping, we dropped in for tea with Admiral and Mrs. Luke McNamee, who have a most charming little house—or rather part of an o}d brownstone house— on East Sixty-sixth street. Mrs. McNamee, aside from being an excellent painter of pastels, has also a flair for interior decoration, and this house, we think, surpasses even the other attractive ones she has done. From the street level one descends several steps. and enters through a small brick paved court, flanked by chubby little spruce trees set in enormous black painted tubs. The door also is painted black with gleaming brass knocker and locks, and the large window at the side has sheer ruffied white curtains framing the row of potted Easter lilies on its sill. On the first floor there is & good-sized sitting room, all done in Vic- torian furniture in tones of green and beige, with hurricane globes over the old candlesticks and some heavenly old prints of birds almost entirely covering the cream colored walls. Next there is the small bar painted lacquer red and white. The upper parts of the walls, which are white, are completely covered with signatures of friends. Directly over the actual bar is a picture of Mae West done on a mirror by some talented guest— done, believe it or not, with lipstick and white soap powder. Mrs. Mc- Namee says that every time the soap powder peels off Miss West she in- vites the gentleman who did the picture to dinner, and he re-touches the work of art! To go on with the house—from the bar one goes into the dining room with paneled walls and lovely old English furniture and then out into the flagstoned garden, now filled with yellow and white crocuses. On the second floor is the large drawing room and one bedroom. The drawing room has enormous windows which give it almost a studio effect. The hangings are green, the walls cream and the big squashy sofas and chairs (one sofa, we feel sure, is the biggest in the world) are covered in brown or brown-and-beige-striped ma- terial. There is a beautiful gold screen, eight feet high, which was painted by Mrs. McNamee's cousin, the late Gardner Hale, whose beautiful wife died so tragically last year. On either side of the 013 marble mantel are fine old Chinese paintings of tawny and very ferocious looking tigers and leopards, and still another Chinese note is the pair of gold dragons on the mantel. The McNamees are such fun and tea was so pleasant that we had to tear ourselves away to give them a chance to change for dinner with the Australian Minister and Mrs. Casey that night. In fact, every place we went that day we saw people who were doing something with visiting diplomats, so we decided they must almost all be in New York. The French Ambassador, the Belglan Am- bassador and Baron and Baroness Baeyens were a few who were here, anyway., « L Dinner with Elinor Guthrie Neff, whom we hadn't seen since school days in Warrenton, and who now is doing a very fine job as beauty editor for one of the smart fashion magazines. seen her cousin, Countess Caracciolo de Melito, the former Miriam Crosby of Warrenton, and that she, with Countess Caracciolo’s sister, Mrs. Crosby ! Hornblow, who now lives in New York, had given Miriam a very gay party almost the minute she landed in New York. Count .Caracciolo is now Italian Consul in Johannesburg, South Africa, and their young son, Ludo- vico, is on a training ship in Italy. Both Miriam Caracciolo and Juliette Hornblow will go to Warrenton for the Gold Cup week end with their father and sister, Celeste Miller, Miriam staving on for several months at the Crosby's beautiful place, View Tree, before rejoining her husband. * x % After the theater we dropped into “21" for a late supper and ran into Mrs. Ffoulke Dewey, John Foster of the British Embassy and Stewart McDonald—which made us fell quite at home. Also at “21” were Gladys Swartout, wearing a long red cape over her black evening gown and one of the new evening hats, this one of black tied under the chin with long black velvet streamers; Herbert Bayard Swope with the Harold Talbotts, George Jean Nathan, Averill Harriman, Julie Hayden and Ethel Barry- more, Representative Myers in the various events. Information concerning tickets can Pennsylvania Society Dance Set Tonight Representative Francis J. Myers Mvers' office in the House Office has announced an interesting pro- | Building. gram for the May day dance of the | Pennsylvania State Society at the | Shoreham Hotel tonight. A profes- sional team will give a short dance ! program, after which the society will | dance. The entire congressional | group for Pennsylvania will i Maiden Form Bra only $7] .00 Lift your bustline . . . snugly . .. easily . . . in & bra that yields graciously to every movement! That's because of the narrow un- der-breast bond of “Tric-O-Las- tic’! Adjustable straps and back for precision fit! Whelans 'WOMEN'S SPECIALTY SHOP 1105 F Street NA. 8225 ¢ Women Find SOCIETY. She told us that she had just | | be secured by calling Representative | MISS RUTH DOING BRANSON., Her wedding to Mr. Charles W. Lincoln of New York will take place June 22. The bride-elect is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Branson of this city. —Underwood & Urderwood Photo. Gold Cup Fete Saturday Many Tables Engaged for Dinner Dance at North Wales Club Many tables have been eggaged | and Mr. John T. Skinner of Middle- for the Gold Cup dinner dance at | burg. ; e North Wales Club in Warrenton | MiSS Audrey Campbell will have | at her table Miss Gertrude Webb, | Saturday evening, where a popular | Comdr. W. D. Thomas, Mr. C. Grif- orchestra will play and a brilliant | fith Warfield, and Mr. Benjamin entertainment is expected. | Plunkett of the British Embassy. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Jenkins| wmiss Jane Wilbur of Warrenton will have as their guests Mr. and | will have as her guests at her ta Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr.. and Mrs. Jane Fowler Bassett, Peapa at their table will also be Miss Mary | N. J.; Messrs. Morris and Stephen Louise Marsh and Mr. Thomas | Clark of Orange, Va. Mr. Henr: Leiter, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Potter of | Frost, jr., of Middleburg, and Miss New York and Capt. and Mrs. Sterl- | Eleanor Keith of Camden, S. C., and m%aLam:ibe;a' Will E. Doell Mlddepute. r. an rs. William E. er e T o will entertain Mr. and Mrs. Carol irM;'f 1{‘&_5{,’;‘_5;::%:l_g‘:]m“f, Alker of Long Island, Mr. and Mrs. will have in their party Dr ! and Harold Sims and Mr. Edward Gard- - - 2 el (Continued on Page B-4.) ner and Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Student Union Ball Gould of New York. Among the guests at the table of Mr. and Mrs. At A. U. Friday American University students Raymond McGrath and Mr. and Mrs. George Sloane will be Mr. and | Mrs. Paul Abbott of New York. | will hold a student union ball Friday evening from 10 to 1 o'clock in the university gymna- Mr. and Mrs, Carhart to Have | Party of Guests. 5 sium to raise funds for a student union building. At the table of Mr. and Mrs. ! Amory S. 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