Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
Interest of Society
Centers In Gay Ball
Due Thursday Night
Washington Assembly En-
ables Guests to Live Over
Again Quaint Days OF
! Century Ago.

Bellies and beaux of long ago will
step out of their frames Thursday
night and live again the quaint and
pleasant hours of the gentlefolk OF
colonial days.
Scores of families who enlivened the
social annals of Washington when 1t
was a new city and of Georgetown
when II was the social center will be
represented at the Washington AS
sembly at the Mayflower Hotel in
their third annual ball. Thursday, Jan
uary 6. Names emblaZoned on the
history of our country stand out in the
list of members and guests. The Cop
leys, the Amorys. the Aldens from
New England; the Van Rensselaer, and
Whitneys of New York; the Wash
ingtons, GUSTS family, Jeffersons,
Randolphs and Maeons of Virginia,
and dozens Of other honored names
will have descendants at this ball.
Some individuals are related to
dozen or so of the distinguished CO.
lonial families For instance, Mrs.
Flora Mason Nicholson, who is dl-
rectly descended from Thomas Jefer-
son, is also directly connected with
the Forests, who were related to the
GUSTS family. to the Randolphs and
the Masons In the great painting
which hangs in the rotunda of the Ma
tional Capitol, depicting the baptism
of Pocahontas Mrs. Nicholson counts
three personages in her ancestry AT
the ball Mrs. Nicholson, who is to
dance in the, minuet, will represent
Lady Forrest. The FORESTS were
among the first settlers of Virginia.
Other connections of the Gusts family
are the Crenshaws. Mrs. Richard
one of the Gusts women, as she is
descended from the first Gusts to
settle in America Mrs. Rose Gouver-
neur Hoes and her sister, Miss Maud
Gouverneur, will represent their two
great grandmothers, who were sisters
and who married President James
Monroe and Nicholas Gouveneur.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Tuckerman
will attend as Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver
Wolcott in Mrs. Tuckerman's line.
Oliver Wolcott was Secretary of the
Treasury in George Washington's
cabinet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Sims Lee
will dress as their distinguished an
cestor of the same name, who was
the second colQftial Governor of
Maryland. Mrs. Charles H. Wood
hull, who has a box at the ball, will
represent one of the early Woodhulls.
The Woodruff family have lived in
Washington since the town began.
With Mrs Frederick Dent Grant IN
her box will be the Princess Ida
Cantacuzene, granddaughter of
President Grant, who is related to
other distinguished Americans and
whose Russian ancestry is a matter
of history. Mrs. Copley Amory, d.
rectly descended from the famous
painter of New England origin and
other famous New Englanders. will
dress as Priscilla Amory of Boston.
Col John Alexander Spottswood.
whose ancestors of the same name
were known for their gallant and dar-
ing deeds in early colonial history.
will represent Allan McLane. one OF
his forebears, who was a member of
Gen. Washington's staff. The first
white child born on Manhattan Island
win be represented at the ball in
direct descendant. Mrs. Isaac T.
Mann. DIR. Dollman will appear as
Cardinal Mazarin in French colonial
costume Mrs. Robert E. Lee. who
has one of the sets in the minuet. will
go as the wife of the president of First
Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
from whom she descends. Mrs. Lee
will wear the famous necklace which
George Washington presented to his
bride and an original old gown. Mrs.
Lee is also a direct descendant OF
Martha Gusts.
Mrs. Charles Alden and Mrs. James
Carroll Frazer, who are cousins, are
Of the New York family of Van Rens-
salers and will represent the Dutch
bellies of their early forebears.
A girls committee of six debu-
tantes from last year and six from
this years buds include Miss Alison
Roebling. who is chairman of the
group; Princess Ida Cantacuzene, Jane
Kendall, Francesca Stewart, Kath-
crime Amory, Lillia Tuekerman. Helen
Gary, Lydia Archbold, Winifred West.
Suzette Dewey, Frances Mckee and
Rosemary Griffin.
Mr.. Writ Howe is chairman of the
mems committee for the Assembly
ball. AS in times past the mems com
mittee for this occasion will be made
up of six Americans and six diplo-
mats chosen from Washington society.
Nine. Ekengren, chairman of the
box committee, and Mrs. Walter Tuck
erman, chairman of the minuet and
pageant, will occupy a box together.
Nine. Ekengren will entertain at din
ner preceding the ball. Her guests will
be the Rumanian Minister, Mr.. Cretzi-
ano; Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Austin, Mrs.
Lindsay Russell, Mr.. Henry Martin
Clark and Mr.. Writ Howe.
In the honor box as guests of the
Assembly will be Secretary of Agricul.
ture and Mrs. Jardine, and Senator
and Mrs. Tyson and a group of their
friends.
Most persons attending the ball will
wear colonial costume, many plan
ming to impersonate a historical an
cestor Nine. Ekengren will go as
Mrs. Oliver Wolcott. wife of a signer