Evening star., 1924-12-19

T HE HTeSlQenI anu MI . Sooi-
idge entertained at the hrst
of their prescribed series OF
State entertainments of the
season last night, having the
members of the cabinet to dine with
them. Seated about the oblong table
In the State dining room were, be-
sides the hosts, the Secretary of State
and Mrs. Hughes. the Secretary Of
the Treasury, Mr.. Mellon; Miss Mel
lon, the Secretary of War and Mrs.
Weeks, the Attorney General and Mrs.
Stone, the Postmaster General and
Mrs. New. the Secretary of the Navy
and Mrs. Wilbur, the Secretary OF In
terror, DR.. Work; the Secretary of
Agriculture, Mr.. Howard NJ. Gore; the
Secretary of Commerce and Mrs.
Hoover, the Secretary of Labor and
Mrs. Davis being the only absentees.
Besides the members of the cabinet
and their ladies, the guests were Sem
ator and Mrs. Francis E. Warren,
Senator and Mrs. William f. Borah,
Senator and Mrs. James w. Wads-
worth, Senator Charles Curtis, Mrs.
Eugene Hale, Senator and Mrs. Will
liam NJ Butler, Representative Mar
tin B. Madden. Representative .ich-
olas Longworth, Representative and
Mrs Bertrand H Smell, Representa-
tive and Mrs. Everett Sanders. Rep
resentative Mae Z. Nolan, the woman
Representative from California; Brig.
Gen. and Mrc. Herbert NJ. Lord, the
secretary to the President, Mr.. c.
Bascom Slemp; Col. and Mrs George
Harvey, MT. and Mrs John Hays
Hammond, Mrs. Frederick Dent
Grant Mrs Edward Beale Mclean,
Col. Clarence o. Sheriff. and Capt.
Adolphus Andrews.
Additional guests Joined the party
following the dinner, and enjoyed the
musical in the east room, where zoo
or more small gilded chairs were
placed for them.
The decorations were exceedingly
simple throughout the State suite, the
grand entrance hall giving the only
strong keynote of color or sugges-
tfon of the approach of Christmas, the
two long marble receptacles standing
between the lofty marble pillars
either side of the center of the en-
trance into the red corridor being
filled with great flaming poinsettias
in full bloom. These, with the uni
formed Marine Band musicians placed
at the right of the hail, gave warm
look to the mansion. The President
and Mrs. Coolidge met their guests
in the blue room, where they were
ranged around the great circular
chamber and there only few white
carnations filled the vases on the
titles of palms and ferns and on the
four mantels OF rare marble were
pink carnations and pink roses. In
the green drawing room were PINK
roses and in the red drawing room
pink and white blossoms.
The state dining board around
which were seated the 46 members of
the party, was distinctively simple
but stately, a number of large plaques
of nauve or pink chrysanthe emums,
topped by sprays of stevia and maid
enhair fern, standing at intervals
along the board interspersed with tall
candles, unshaded, in the gold can
delabra, which is a part of the gold
service used. On the mantel were
ferns and stevia.
The artists of the evening were Mr..
Albert Spalding, violinist, and Mr..
Ralph Errolle, tenor, with Mr.. Andre
Benoist at the piano.
Mr.. Spalding's program included
La F'ollia" (CorellD, Evening Song
(schumann), "Hark, Hark, the Lark
(Schubert). "Nocturne" (Chopin),
alabama" (plantation melody and
dance) (Spalding), and "Jota Navar-
no" (Sarasate). Mr.. Errolle sang
'Paauita" (Buzzi- -Pecca), Isl les
Fleurs" (Massenet), "Je t'aime" (Mas-
senet), "Ah, Moon of My Delight, |
Lights of Home" (Seiler), Love
Awake" (Seiler), THE Star (Rogers), |
and MY Dreams" (TostD.
1t is a beautiful tradition that the
President and the first lady of the
land shall attend the annual ball
given for the benefit of the Children's
Hospital, an event fittingly placed
each year not far from Christmas day,
and President and Mrs. Coolidge, |
though attending no other such func- |
tions this Winter, will appear at the |
Children's Hospital ball at the New |
Willard Hotel the night of January 2.