Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
SOCIETY
Mrs. Hoover Attends Parent-Teachers
=: - Meeting and Luncheon and Will
Attend Concert Tong ht

FRS. HOOVER attended the
I'M meeting of the Parent-Teach-
WI ers' Association this forenoon,
4 4 and was a guest at the lunch
con arranged for the delegates
an the rose room of the Hotel Washing
ton at l o'clock.
This afternoon the President ana
Mrs. Hoover received the National
Council of the Colonial Danes OF
America.
Mrs. Hoover is expected to attend the
concert tonight in Central High School,
when Sylvia Lent will be soloist, with
chorus of 300 local singers under the
direction Of Frederick Alexander.
The Postmaster General, Mr.. Walter
+. Brown. left last evening for Toledo,
where he Will join Mrs. Brown. The
Postmaster General is expected to re-
turn to his apartment in the Waroman
Park Hotel tomorrow.
British Envoy and Lady
Isabella Howard Honor Guests.
The Ambassador of Great Britain
and Lady Isabella Howard will be the
quests in whose honor the Assistant
Postmaster General and Mrs. w. 1rv-
ing Glover will entertain at dinner this
The Ambassador and Lady Isabella
Howard were hosts at dinner last eve
ming. having as their guests the Secre-
tary of Labor and Mrs. James j. Davis,
the Belgian Ambassador and Princess
de Ligne, the Minister of Albania, Mr..
Faik Konitza; Mr. Justice and Mrs.
George Sutherland Mr.. Justice and Mrs.
Edward Terry Sanford, Senator and
Mrs. William T. King, Senator and Mrs.
James Couzens, Representative A. Pratt
Andrew, Representative and Mrs. Sol
Bloom, Representative and Mrs. James
M. Beck, the secretary to the President
and Mrs. George Akerson, the secretary
of the French embassy, M. Jules Henry;
the rector of st. Johns Episcopal
Church and Mrs. Robert Johnston, Maj.
Gen. Charles L. McCawley, Mr.. and
Mrs. GroSvenor H. Backus, Mr.. and
Mrs. Mark Sullivan, Mrs. Joseph E. Will
lard. Mrs. George Cabot Lodge, Mrs.
William Barrett Ridgely, Mrs. Henry
Lane Emo, Mr.. William Phelps Emo
and the second secretary of the British
embassy and Mrs. Huxley and Miss
Gytha Stourton.
( The Ambassador of Belgium and
Princess de Ligne will sail for Havana
Saturday. The Ambassador will repre-
sent Belgian at the reinauguration OF
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president with the Grand Order Of the
Gross of Leopold, conferred upon the
distinguished Cuban by the King OF
the BelgianS.
Prince and Princess de Ligne will re-
turn to Washington early in June, after
making short visit in New Orleans.
The Japanese Ambassador and Nine.
Debuchi will leave today for Columbia,
mo, to attend the celebration Of jour-
nalism week, on the invitation of the
School of Journalism of the University
Sof Missouri. The Ambassador and,
Anne. Debuchi will return Sunday.
The newly appointed Minister of
Siam, Prince Amorabat, and his three
children will arrive in Washington this
afternoon The Minister was met on
his arrival in New York yesterday
aboard the lie de France by the coun-
selor of the legation, Mr.. LOTUS, and
other members of the legation stah.
I Senator and Mrs. Royal S. Copeland
have returned to their apartment in the
Wardman Park Hotel after a short visit
In New York.
Miss Grace Burton will be at home
Tomorrow afternoon from to o'clock
and will receive again Thursday after
connecticut avenue.
I. Mrs. Thatcher, wife of Representative
Maurice H. Thatcher, has issued invita-
tions for luncheon Friday, May "a,
bat the Congressional Country Club.
The Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
Mr.. Ernest L. Jahncke, will be the hon
or guest at dinner this evening of Capt.
and Mrs. w. r. Van Auken.
! Brig. Gen. and Mrs. George 8.
Simonds will entertain at dinner this
sevening at the Army, Navy and Marine
Corps Country Club.
! Mrs. James E. Fechet, wife Of the chief
iof the Army Air Corps, was hostess to
company of IL at luncheon today in honor
of Mrs. cara Hudtlof of Madison, Wis,
who is visiting her sister. Mrs. p. M.
Henderson, in her home in Chevy Chase.
4 Col. and Mrs. William j. Donovan
are in New York, where they are stay
ing at the Ambassador Hotel.
: Col. and Mrs. d. r. Rodney will en-
stertain a company of IA at dinner this
sevening at the Wardman Park Hotel.
Mrs Buckner, wife of Maj. Simon Boil
war Buckner, jr., student at the Army
! War College, will entertain few
friends at tea this afternoon in honor
sof Mai. Buckners mother, Mrs. Simon
Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky, widow OF
the Lieut.. Gen. Buckner OF the
confederate Army, one-time Governor
of Kentucky and nominee for Vice
President on the sound money Demo-
cratic ticket in 1896. Mrs. Buckner,
as first president of the Kentucky So
ciety of Colonial Danes, has many
friends in Washington.
Mai. and Mrs. William Rupertus,
who will sail for China this month,
have given up their apartment on Con-
snecticut avenue and are the guests OF
Mai. Rupertus' mother, Mrs. Charles
Rupertus, at 2943 Upton street north
west Maj. Rupertus has been ordered
to China and will be attached to the
united States legation at Peking.
Many Luncheon
Parties on Schedule.
Mrs. Wilton j. Lambert entertained
at luncheon today when her guests were
Mrs Henry F. Ashurst, Mrs. Joseph T.
Robinson, Mrs. Arthur r. Robinson,
. Mrs. Morris Sheppard, Mrs. William j.
Harris, Miss Grace Burton, Mrs. Percy