New Britain herald., 1929-02-09

for her sister-in-law during many years Of invalidism of the latter. For . full twelve month, Mrs. Gam has been too busily engaged to reg ularly attend the luncheons and really had no inclination to assume the duties of the head Of the body.
 Mrs. Gann's Thursday afternoons at home in the Mayflower Hotel show her popularity. her drawing rooms and tea room being crowded almost to the point of suffocation. Mrs. Gam. . tall stately blonde. will be the queen of the ball on the night of March {. aand while she has her ball gown ready to don. she is keeping it . profound secret. Since the President and Mrs. Hoov- CT have signified their determination not to attend the ball. and 1t is not, officially speaking. 2 part of the inaugural program. this leaves the vice president and his sister as the most conspicuous figures.
 State governors will form . part of the escort of the vice president into the ball room. and the tiers Of boxes will be filled with a grand opera audience made up Of glitter ing show of splendid gowns. jewels and uniforms. Bidding for boxes was a snappy feature in the ball headquarters for 2 week or more, and as the list now stands 1t is very representative of society. Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood of Con- necticut, has be .n allotted the pres identical box. and Mrs. Jacob Lean- der Loose of Kansas City. Missouri who was official hostess to the re- publican national convention in Kansas City in June, has been as- signed the diplomatic box. which has always been set aside for am. bassadors on grand opera nights. The Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg have taken box and will have St. Paul friends and relatives with them.
 The vice president and the gover- nors of states will accompany Mrs. John Allan Dougherty. chairman of the committee. to the stage. Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick. who by that night will have been sworn in as 8 representative from Illinois. has a large box. and the president pro tempore of the senate and Mrs. George H. Moses Senator and Mrs, Frederic M. Sackett, Senator and Mrs. Henry Wilder Reyes. of New Hampshire. and former Representa- tive Joseph Hines of Maryland. are among the officials who have boxes. Phillip Rhinelander of New York. J. l.. Kraft of Chicago, and Matthew Quay Chaser of New York. president of the Hoover-Curtis club of that city, are box holders. Among the diplomats who will entertain in boxes are the Minister Of Hungary and Countess Szechenyi. while Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh. Mrs. Edward Goodrich. of New York and Me-, and Mrs. Copley Amory are others who will entertain box parties for the ball. More than fifty thousand dollars will be realized for chil- dren's charities from the sale Of seats and boxes for the ball which will equal, or excel in size any in- augural ball ever given in the capital.
 As if preparing for the advent of Ash Wednesday, next week, society has had an unusual number of dim ner parties, luncheons, and other fetes for many days, parties growing in size and importance with each event.
 Vice President and Mrs. Dawes had final reckoning with society, giving one of the largest and most imposing dinners of the season ir the Pan-American Union. Repre-. elect Ruth Hanna Me- Cormick came from Chicago espe- cially to attend. Mrs. Charles w. Sawyer, of Marion, Ohio. widow of the late General Sawyer. physician to the late President and the late Mrs. Harding came for it. Mir. and Mrs. William R. Dawes. arrived from Chicago, MT. and Mrs. Mark w. Woods, from Lincoln. Neb.. Mir. and Mrs. A. H. Wigging. Mir. and Mrs. Eugene Zukor, and Mir. P. B. Scandrett. came from New York.
 Topping the imposing list were the Ambassador of Italy. Mobile Giacomo de Martino; the Ambassa- dor of Germany. and Frau von Prittwitz und Gaffron, the Speaker and Mrs. Longworth, the secretary of the treasury and others of the