Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1940, Page 25

SOCIETY. Entertainment for Ladies ‘Of Scientific Congress High Lights May’s Events Many Gay Parties Arranged For Latin American Visitors to Capital By MARGARET HART, Saclety Editor. ‘When the curtain drops on all the festivities scheduled to take place during the next three weeks it justly may be said: “What a merry month of May.” Already a number of delightful parties have been arranged and, with the gay round of functions planned for visitors, the remainder of the month, socially speaking, will be merry and gay indeed. An elaborate program of entertainment has been decided upon for the wives and daughters of delegates to the Eighth American Scientific Congress which will open Friday in Constitution Hall. The Department of State is taking the social side of the congress quite seriously, and has appointed a Ladies’ Committee in order that every courtesy may be extended to the wives and daughters of all delegates. The committee has been hard at work arranging events particularly designed to honor the ladies accompanying the delegates from our neighboring American republics. Mrs. Cordell Hull Honorary Chairman. Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife of the Sec- retary of State, is honorary chair- man of the committee and serving as honorary vice chairmen are Mrs. Sumner Welles, Miss Jennie M. Moore, Mrs. Adolf A. Berle, jr.; Mrs. Henry F. Grady, Mrs. Breckinridge Long, Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Mrs. Frank B. Jewett and Mrs. Roland S. Morris. Mrs. Laurence Duggan, wife of the Chief of the Division of Ameri- can Republics of the State Depart- ment, is the active chairman of the committee and has working with her Mrs. Alexander Wetmore, Miss Mary Winslow, Mrs. Hugh H. Bennett, Mrs. Isaiah Bowman, Mrs. Lyman J. Briggs, Mrs. Thomas Burke, Mrs. ‘Vannevar Bush, Mrs. Nicholas Mur- ray Butler, Mrs, Ben M. Cherring- ton, Mrs. Raymond B. Fosdick, Mrs. Clarence H. Haring, Mrs. Ross G. Harrison, Mrs, Waldo G. Leland, Mrs. Archibald MacLeish, Mrs, Har- old G. Moulton, Mrs. Thomas Par- ran, Mrs, Stuart A. Rice, Mrs. War- ren Delano Robbins, Mrs. Herbert J. Spinden, Mrs. T. Wayland Vaughan and Mrs. Stanley Woodward. The secretary of the committee is Miss Eula McDonald. ‘The Latin American visitors will ,experience all types of Capital en- tertainment. There will be a gala garden party given in their honor by the Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. Berle. Mr. and Mrs. Berle will entertain Wednesday, May 15, at Woodley. There will be dancing and a program of entertainment. A coffee party is on the program for Tuesday, with the Misses Moore, sisters of the counselor of the State Department, hostesses, at 11 o'clock in the morning at their country place in Fairfax, Va. In order that the visitors may have every com- fort and guidance in making their rounds of the functions for them a number of women are serving on what might be termed a Transpor- tation Committee. They include Mrs. Gilbert Bell, Mrs. Vergil Reed, Mrs. John Carter, Miss Marion Davis, Mrs. Paul Dan- {els, Mrs. Jay Hayden, Mrs. Oscar Rand, Mrs. Stephen Rauschenbush, Mrs. Louis Jeffries, Miss Dolores Shanhan, Mrs. McCeney Werlich, Mrs. Arthur Stimson, Mrs. Theodore Perrin, Mrs. Mark P. Schultze, Mrs. Walderman Wickman, Mrs. Paul Neal, Mrs. Paul Stewart, Mrs. John Vance and Mrs. Edwin G. Nourse, Taking into consideration the fact that many of our attractive visitors do not speak English, it has been ar- ranged to have on the committee ‘women who speak Spanish. List of Guests For Moore Party. The Misses Moore have invited a notable group of women to attend the coffee party for the Latin Amer- ican ladies and included on the list are Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone, Mrs. Owen J. Roberts, Mrs. Hugo L. Black, Mrs. Felix Frankfurter, Mrs. William O. Douglas, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, Jr.; Mrs. Harry H. Woodring, Mrs. James A. Farley, Mrs, Charles Edi- son, Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor; Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, Mrs. Sol Bloom, Mrs. Key Pittman, Miss Marguerite M. Wells, Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, Miss Agnes Regan, Mrs. John Donaldson, Mrs, Stanley Woodward, Miss Mary An- derson, Mme. Mary Ladame, Mrs. Elizabeth Shirley Enochs, Miss Kath- erine Lenroot, Dr. Louis Stanley, Mrs, Lucille Foster McMillin and Miss Katharine Blackburn. A high light of the entertaining — for the delegates and their wives will be the reception the Secretary of State and Mrs. Hull will give Sat- urday evening at the Pan-American Building. Monday afternoon Mrs. Welles will entertain at a reception at the Sulgrave Club for the Latin American ladies, and the following day Mrs. Roosevelt will receive the ladies accompanying, not only the Latin American delegates, but our own representatives at the congress. ‘This reception will take place at 2:30 o'clock, and, weather permit- ting, the affair will be held on the south lawn of the White House. The visitors will be taken on ex- tensive sightseeing tours, and in- cluded among the places to be vis- ited will be the gardens of Dum- barton Oaks, the home of the former United States Ambassador to the Argentine and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. Alumnae Fete Mrs. Edmund D. Campbell, former dean of Mary Baldwin College, will entertain the Washington Chapter of the Mary Baldwin Alumnae As- sociation at her home, 2912 North Glebe road, Arlington, Saturday at 3:15 o’clock. nafigiaf‘;};gsfgéx:l;‘;h"erl\xgugg?:: | the Pan-American Union; Dr. Thomas Parran, director of the Pan- win Alumnae Association, will be the guest of honor and speaker. MISS CLARA BARRETT. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Barrett, announce her engagement to Mr. Wil- liam Carroll White. The wed- ding will take place in June. For 20- years our bus- iness has been to look after the finest rugs in Wash- ington. Our superior service costs you mo more. Nazarian Brovs. Co. REPAIRED CLEANED STORED Est. 1920 DIST. 1221 G St N.W. To those who know it, we needn’t say a word. Women try it on. Wear it out of our salon. And then come back to order it in a variety of colors. Just right for summer with its open- heel, open-toe freedom, its buoyant prop and its stretchable "sling” that gently but firmly hugs your heel. | American delegates. | of honor Friday at the luncheon of the English Speaking Union at the ‘EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, MISS CATHERINE DRUIE THOMPSON. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Monroe Thompson of Monticello, Ark., announce her engagement to Lt. George L. Raring. The wedding will take place May 29 in the chapel at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. —Brooks Photo. ' Official and Diplomatic Luncheon Given by Latin American Delegates to Health Congress The Mexican Ambassador, Senor Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Najera, and the Colombian Ambassador, Senor Dr. Gabriel Turbay, were among the honored guests at the luncheon which the Latin American delegates to the Pan-American Health Congress gave yesterday for the North Other guests of honor at the luncheon, which was held at the Shoreham Hotel, were Dr. Leo S. Rowe, director general of American Sanitary Bureau; Dr. Hugh S. Cumming and the assistant director of the bureau, Dr Edward C. Ernst. The Polish Ambassador, Count Jerzy Potocki, entertained at dinner last evening at the Embassy. His guests included the dean of the diplo- matic corps, the Peruvian Ambassador, Senor Don Manuel de Freyre y Santander; the Brazilian Ambassador and Senhora de Martins, Mr. Justice Frank Murphy, Senator and Mrs. Arthur H. Vandenburg, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Count de Limur, Mr. and Mrs. Drew Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Noyes, Prince Obolenski, Prof. Jan de Rosen, Mrs. Ffoulke Dewey, Mrs. Marian Warburg, Count Lasocki and Prince and Princess Hohenloe. Mme. Horinouchi, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, entertained at luncheon yesterday at the Embassy. The Australian Minister and Mrs. Richard G. Casey will be guests Willard Hotel. Lt. Col. Russell L. Maxwell will be the speaker at the duncheon which will be presided over by Mr. Robert Lincoln O'Brien. At the speaker’s table will be the Minister of the Union of South Africa ana Mrs. Ralph William Close, Sir Owen and Lady Chalkley, Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley and Mr. and Mrs. Merchant Mahoney. The Assistant Secretary of Labor and Mrs. Charles V. McLaughlin have as their guests the latter’s brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Talbot of Cheyenne, Wyo. Mr. and Mrs. Talbot have been making a tour of the East, and will remain in the Capital until the end of the week. ’Mrs. Samuel O. Clark, jr., wife of the Assistant Attorney General, en- tertained at luncheon today at the Shoreham in honor of her mother,§ Mrs. J. A. Northrop, and her sister, Mrs. Harold R. Wolfe of New Haven, | Conn,, who are her guests for several weeks. BEST& CO. 3 EMERSON 7700 4433 CONNECTICUT AVE., N. W, SAILING BLUES... NEWEST MOTHER-DAUGHTER STYLE ITH SAILING BLUES, Best’s adds another “winner” to its long roster of successful play-fashions. Nicely tailored in a sturdy but lightweight cotton, these exclusive fashions are fast color . . . have a young, fresh look. Jackets and slacks . . . girl’s sizes 10 to 16, mother’s sizes 12 to 20, 3.95 each. Girl’s shorts with elastic belt, 2.95, and shirt, 1.95. Both 10 to 16. D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940. By the Way— Beth Blain Senator and Mrs. Warren Barbour will give & dance for their tall, slim, attractive debutante daughter Elysabeth on June 8 at the famous Larz Anderson house. The party will include a few—and very few— friends of the beautiful Mrs. Barbour and her distinguished husband, as well as flocks and flocks of the younger set—the debutantes and their escorts. The evening before, Mr. and Mrs. John Gross—the former Laura Merriam Curtis—will give a similar party in honor of Laura’s daughter Pauline at the 1925 P Street Club. Both parties promise to be outstanding ones, and the two young debutantes should be tremen- dously successful socially here, not only because of their own personal charm, but also because of their families’ great popu- larity in the Capital. ‘The Barbours’ youngest child, small and dynamic “Sharon,” will be one of the children “six years or under” who will ride in the “lead class” at the Washington Horse Show Saturday morning, May 18, to be given under the sponsorship of the Junior League at the Meadow- brook grounds. No.end of profes- sional jealousy has been stirred up among this very young group by the fact that little Alice Birney Robert (aged 15 months) is having a special riding habit made and fitted to her s WSeT Barhone: measurements by her mother’s tailor—with, we understand, in- numerable fittings, especially for the snug fitting jodhpurs. The story reminds us of something Mrs. Robert Scotten told us about attempting to buy a dress for the 7-year-old daughter of a friend here, on her ‘way through Paris back to the States. The shop, a very impressive one, which caters only to children, informed her very regally that they only made things to order for little girls over 6—and that since it was impossible to send the little Ameri- can recipient in for fittings they really couldn’t sell her a dress! To go back to the children’s class at the horse show, other entrants include little Laurie and Teddy Hardin, the adorable and fiery-haired sons of Dr. and Mrs. B. Lauriston Hardin; Ellie McConihe, whose sunny dis- position seems not one bit disrupted by the fact that her parents, the Moran McConihes, have recently presented her with a small brother; Serena Rumbold, the sweet little daughter of the young British Embassy ‘Tony Rumbolds, whose placid name somewhat belies her large flirtatious blue eyes; dark and smiling little “Ceci” Carusi, who has inherited the good looks of both stunning parents, Mr. and Mrs, Eugene Carusi, and little Charlotte McNary, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Charles McNary. After the strain of riding about the ring, the small fry will be given all sorts of treats in the way of music, furnished by the organ-grinder (one with a monkey!); countless booths with all sorts of games and prizes, pony rides and every kind of goodies such as ice cream cones, orange juice and cookies, and that wonderful pink cotton candy that takes us back so vividly to the circus days when we too were “very, very young.” * % % % Comdr. and Mrs. Jerauld Wiltse will give a cocktail party at the 1925 F Street Club Tuesday, May 14; the Robin Pells have asked friends to a buffet dinner at picturesque “Cornwell” near Vienna, Va., Saturday, May 18; the previous evening Mrs. Thomas Richard Cowell is having a buffet supper at her Tracy street house and-asking tennis enthusiasts to come early for a game on her excellent court before supper; Maj. and Mrs. David Barry will give a small dinner before the Auchinclosses’ leap year party at Merrywood May 25, and May 24 is the evening Col. and Mrs. Joseph Cecil have chosen to give a small dance at the 1925 F Street Club; Arthur Bradley Campbell will again fete his two charming young English cousins, this time at a dance to be given at Grasslands Wednesday, May 29. 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