The Washington times., 1925-05-23
COUNTRY CLUB
CELEBRATES
BIRTHDAY
All-Day Fete in Progress
: at Congressional; Ball
Tonight
By JEAN ELIOT.

I'm celebration of its first ami
versary. the Congressional
n Country Club has arranged an
all day fete today, which will wind
up with a brilliant ball, the ter
races being thrown open for dane
ing for the first time this season.
In the afternoon there will be a
tea dance, with an exhibition OF
interpretive dancing as a feature.
The program, which will be given
BY the pupils of the Marjorie Web
ster School of Dancing will be
staged just at sunset on the terrace
and around the rim of the pictures
que little lake which nestles in a
hollow of the hills surrounding the
club. The numbers planned are
varied and interesting including
s'The Artists Dream" an Indian
Dance" "Flapper Dance" Tango"
and "All Alone"
Many dinner parties have been
arranged for the interval between
the tea dance and the evening s
festivities. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph H.
Hines, the former once president
OF the club, will entertain party,
having Mr. and Mrs. G. Logan
Payne among their guests; and
others who will entertain at dinner
are Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Compton.
M. and Mrs. S. NJ. Tatum, of
Miami. Fla, Doctor Bruce. Taylor
and Thomas T. Keane.
A golf tournament has been in
progress all day and during the
early hours of the afternoon a
cl1ildren's party was given, with a
special playground opened for the
ocea sion
Al gala day, indeed, and calling
attention to the important part
which this new club has come to
play in the social life of the
Capital. 1t was opened formally
last May with a brilliant reception
at which the President and Mrs.
Coolidge were guests and which
drew so many motors into the
roads approaching the club as to
produce the worst traffic jam since
the burial of the Unknown Soldier
at Arlington.
President Coolidge TO Attend
Reception at Club; Taft Honored.
president Coolidge has accepted
an invitation to attend reception
which the Commercial Club OF Gin
clnnati is holding at the club on
Decoration Day. following. the
luncheon which this prominent
group of Ohioans is giving in honur
df Chief Justice Taft, for twenty
five years an honorary member Of
the organization. Because OF his
engagement to speak at the Decora-
ton Day exercises at Arlington, the
= President will not be able to at.
tend the luncheon, hut &he has sig
nified his intention OF motoring olit
20 the club as soon as the cere-
monies are over.
The members Of. the Cincinnati
Commercial Club. who were enter
tained at the White House by Mr..
Taft when he was President, are
having their annual outing next
week and will reach Washington
on Friday by special train. A din
ner in their honor will be given
for them that night at the Con-
gressional Country Club. The fes-
tivities of Saturday-Decoration Dav
will wind up with a dinner for
which Edward Beale Mclean will
be host: and on Sunday the party
win visit Annapolis. The special will
start on it's honeward journey on
Sunday night.
Last evening an interesting din
ner party was given at the club
by Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Tatum, Of
Miami. who entertained in celebra-
tion of their thirtieth wedding an
n:versary. They had thirty guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tatrm. who are here
from Miami with Mr.. and Mrs. s..
~. Tatum.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hines were the
guests of honor at dinner given
Thursday evening by r. e. Sauter,
The other guests were Miss Thelma
Bradburn, Winnipeg, Canada; Miss
Frances Hopkins, Miss Eleanor
Wheeler. Marshall Exnicious, James
p. Nolan. Franklin D. Jones and
Clarence Hight, jr.