Evening star., 1925-02-08
Costume Ball Guests
From States Listed;
Many Are Boxholders
Historical Events to Be Re-
called by Brilliant Affair
Scheduled at MayAower
Hotel.

come to Washington for the hls'of-
icaI costume ball at the MaSlio"e,
Hotel on the evening or FeoruaLy
and will be guest In the NORM
Carolina box, and Mrs. Hester Dorsey
Richardson of Baltimore VIII also
come for the event. II, -,
Mrs. John Speed Morris VIII os
hostess in the Jenerson poH a nd
among her guests will be Col. ana
Mrs. Jefferson Randolph Kean, Comdr.
and Mrs. William Teloe Smith, MISS
Cornelta jefferson Taylor and MISS
Margaret Randolph Taylor and ses-
eral others, all descended from Jel-
ferson.
Mrs. Page Norris Hunter repre-
senting Mrs. Hugh Mercer; MISS tN-
elena Prescott Kean, representing the
widow Selton. after Mrs. Thomas
Jefferson; Miss Ellen Featherstone'
representing Anne Cary. and Miss Nir-
einia Dickens oill also be in the JET
ferson box and will dance in the
Thomas jefferson set of the minuet.
Following the liberal spirit of Mr..
jefferson himself, who in his inau-
gural address used the phrase, "opin-
ions differ, but principles are the
same" or words to that erect, the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Founda-
tion box will bear the name OF Ihe
Alexander Hamilton Box" The host,
MIR. Stuart G. Gibboney of New YORK,
president of the national organiZa-
ton, has asked Mrs. Nnnigerode An
drewS chairman of the washington
committee, to preside.
On one side of the Hamilton box
will be the Carriers of Shirley ana
of "Corotoman," and on the other
side. the Randolphs OF turkey
Island and Eastern View" Mrs. Rob-
ert f. Lee will preside over double
box named for the Lees of Virginia
and the Middletons and Pinckneys OF
South Carolina.
Mrs. John Speed Morris and her
brother, Col. jefferson Randolph
kean, and Mrs. Kean, great-great-
grandchildren of Mr.. Jefferson, Will
assemble the Jefferson connections
for their box, and DR.. and Mrs. Will
liam Cabell Rives will represent in
houses, the Rives of Albemarle Coun-
~ Va. and the Rhinelanders of New
York.
The occasion of the ball being in
honor of the birthday anniversary of
Gen. Washington, the Washington
family, as guests of Mrs. Jean Black
burn Washington Moran, will be con-
spicuous The Maryland Colonial
DANES in the Lady Baltimore box"
will be the guests of Mrs. William
Southron Powell, president of the
Washington committee. The Virginia
Colonial Danes will be presided over
by Mrs. Benja min Rush Logic, presi-
dent of the Washington committee.
Mrs. Logic also will have family
box, in which all guests will appear
in genuine Scotch costumes, DR..
Logies name not being French, but
old Scotch. and pronounced to rhyme
with the legendary "bogies," of whom
Tam OShanter stood in wholesome
awe.
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman and Nine
Ekengren will be joint hoGtesses in
the Oliver Walcott box. named for
the signer of the Declaration of In
dependence, and the costumes they
will wear will be- copies of those in
ancestral portraits. Mrs. Cabot
Stevens will be hostess to a very
distinguished group, and among her
guests will be Attorney General and
Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone and Senator
and Mrs. Royal Copeland. Senator
Copeland is chairman for New York
State of the Thomas Jefferson Founda
tion.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hillyer, jr, of
Atlanta, Ga, will call their box the
George Walton box" after signer
of the Declaration of Independence,
and among their guests will be the
Governor of Georgia. Mr.. Hillyer
will take the part of his ancestor in
the minuet.
The Governor of Virginia and Mrs.
II. Lee Trinkle also will attend the
ball and will be guests in the box of
Mrs. George d. Hope.
Mrs Gibson Fahnestock, who was
Miss Andrews of Maryland. and who
has a most interesting family back
ground, will entertain at dinner the
evening of the ball and later tax g
her guests to the ball, where she will
have a large box.
Mrs. Rose Gouveneur Hoes, chair
man of the ball committee, has an
nounced that the ladies' committee
includes Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, Mrs.
Goldsborough Adams, Nine. Ekengren,
Mrs. William Laird Dunlop, jr.; Mrs.
David Du Bose Gaillard, Mrs. Thomas
II. c. Reed, Mrs. George Hillyer, jr.
Mrs J. II. Boggs, Mrs. Marion Butler,
Mrs. Harry Reade, Mrs. E. v. Wilcox,
Miss Jean L. Bennett, Mrs. Benjamin
Rush Logic, Miss Taylor Logic, Mrs.
Tucker Logan, Mrs. Tucker Pendle-
ton. Mrs. II. E. C. Bryant, Mrs. Rich
ard X. Tyler, Miss Gage, the Misses
garet H. Worrell, Mrs. Lucien Carr,
Mrs. John Reed Scott, Mrs. Thomas
w. Lockwood. jr.: Mrs. Gibbs Baker.
Mrs Charles d. Drayton. Mrs Thomas
w. Sidwell, Mrs. George f. Dudley,
Mrs. John Ritchie, Mrs. William
Bowie, Mrs. ]. NJ. Stodard, Mrs. Monte
Griffith, Mrs. l.. w Eugster, Miss JeS-
sica Smith, Miss NJ B. Chancellor,
Mrs. Hugh S. Cumming, Mrs. Taylor,
Miss Agnes Peter, Miss Aleen Solo
mon, Mrs Warren Ackers. Mrs. Sid
ney Andrews, Mrs. Gilmer Brenizer,
Mrs Virginia Clopton, Mrs. Cabot
Stevens, Mrs. Isaac We'll, Mrs. r. II.
Bagby, Mrs. Blair Banister. Mrs. r.
Ross Perry, Mrs. Mccarthy, Mrs.
Robert f. Lee, Mrs. Dorsey Richard =
son, Mrs. f. +. Andrews, Miss Ruth
Stoddard, Mrs. c. G. Matthews, Mrs.
Charles II. Campbell, Mrs. Murray
Addison, Mrs. Howard l.. Hodgkins,
Miss Florence Butler, Mrs. Henry
Jones Ford, Mrs Edouard Albion,
Mrs. Marcus Benjamin, Mrs. Laurence
Lee, Mrs. Albert l.. Baggs. Mrs. Will
liam Laird Dunlop, jr.; Mrs. William
J.. Sicard, Mrs. Huntington Turner,
Mrs Forrest Vrooman, Mrs. Eugene
lie Merle, Miss Mary Williams. Miss
katherine c. Lowndes, Mrs. Julian j.
Mason, Mrs. David Meade Lee, Mrs.