Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-29
Events Of INTEREST
IN AND OUT Of TOWN
President and Mrs. Wilson Dine To-
night With Secretary and
Mrs. Redfield.
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
Hosts at Brilliant Reception.
Dinners-Teas-N

The Secretary of Commerce and Mrs.
Redfeld will entertain at dinner to-
night in honor of the President and
Mrs. Wilson.
Their guests will include Miss Red
field of Pittsfeld, Mass. and a number
of others from out of town.
The Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
welcomed a thousand and more guests
last night at the Willard, concluding d
series of brilliant evening receptions
which have been the handsomest of the
winter.
The President and Mrs. Wilson came
in during the latter part Of the even
ing. and after being received by the
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall made
a tour Of the bathrooms. Mrs. Wilson
wore a gown of black chiffon velvet
trimmed with jet and tulle.
The cabinet. the diplomatic CORPS the
Senate and House of Representatives,
resident notables and the army and
navy were brilliantly represented in
the company
The Vice President and Mrs. Marsha IL
received a the north end of the ball
room, a great space about them being
arranged as a drawing room. The buff
get ia BILE was along the center of the
lower half of the room and was gayly
adorned with spring flowers.
Dancing was enjoyed all evening in
the small ballroom
Assisting the Vice President and Mrs
Marshall were their house guests. Judge
and Mrs. A. A. Adams and Mrs. w A.
Jamison of New York: Senator and Mrs.
O'Gorman. Senator and Mrs. Pomerene.
Senator and Mrs. Shields, Senator and
Mrs. Sheppard, Senator and Mrs. Over
man, Senator and Mrs. Swanson. Sena-
tor and Mrs. Gore, Senator Pittman, the
governor of the federal reserve board
and Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin. the assist
ant secretary of agriculture and Mrs.
Vrooman. Judge and Mrs. Charles c.
McChord, Mrs. Lindley NJ Garrison,
Mrs. George Leary. Mrs Brandt, sister
of Mrs. Pomerene; Miss Page, Miss
Harlan. Miss Overman. Miss Grace Over
| man, Miss Burleson, Miss Sidney Burle-
son, the Misses O'Gorman, Miss Ruth
Hitchcock. Miss Margaret McChord
Miss Jane Gregory, Miss jeanette Cow
an. Miss Agnes Hart Wilson. Miss Mary
Wilson, Miss Pocahontas Butler. Miss
| Frances Dunn, Miss Nash. Miss Marie
| Peary and Miss Dorothy bennett.
| Mrs. Marshall wore an elegant black
! velvet gown trimmed with black Span
| ish lace and scquins.
| Other lovely gowns were worn by
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, changeable
mauve and silver taffeta. with lace on
the corsage and fur bordering the
skirt; Mrs. William G. Redfield, laven-
| der satin, with fur trimming; Mrs.
Champ Clark. white brocaded satin and
tulle; Miss Harlan, sapphire blue ia lille,
! with lace and fur trimming; Mrs. John
W. Foster. black velvet and point lace;
| Mrs Dulles, blue brocade; Miss Lam
sing, white tulle and satin trimm ed
with iridescents; Nine. van Starken-
borgh-Strachouwer, pale pink net en-
| broidered in gold, with a periwinkle
blue girdle; Mrs. Victor Kauffmann
white satin and pink tulle; Nine. Sua :
| reZ-Mujica, black tulle embroidered in
iridescent green sequins OYER gold
cloth: Mrs. Charles +. Hughes. cloth
| Of silver brocaded in a flower design;
Mrs. Timothy T. Ansberry, black tulle
with jet trimming.
| Miss Lillian Mcmillan wore a pink
embroidered chiffon gown with silver
lace bodice.
Mrs. Frederick A. Britten, black net
embroidered in over American beauty
net.
Miss Elizabeth Britten OF San Fran.
cisco, guest of Mrs. Frederick A. Brit.
ten, white satin with sequin
| Mrs. Porter J. McCumber, black net
over black satin, with sequin trimming
! Mrs. George w. Edmunds, white EN-.
broidered chiffon trimmed with rhine.
stones.
Mrs. John K. Shields, black velve,
with touches of gold; Miss Jeanette
Cowan, white tulle over cloth of silver
| trimmed with green ribbon and gar
lands of rosebuds: Mrs. Claude A
Swanson. blue and silver brocade, trim
med with silver lace: Mrs. Morris
| Shepard, white tulle with a girdle OF
ribbon in pastel shades; Mrs. Thomas
r. Gore. rose silk with silver lace
trimming; Mrs. Charles c. McChord
blue chiffon over blue silk; Miss Mar.