Evening star., 1929-12-19
SOCIETY
President and Mrs: Hoover Dinner Hosts
to Visiting Delegates to Naval
Conference in London.

resident society folk who paid their
respects.
Mrs. william De Witt Mitchell, wife
of the Attorney General, who Is better
| known to Washington society than are
most of the cabinet women, having been
here for several years, held open house
and she had the distinction of having
Mrs. William Howard Taft, wife of the
Chief Justice, on her list Of assistants,
while the wives of the Assistant Attor-
neys General presided at the tea table.
There was suggestion of the first
days of the Government in the recep-
ton of Mrs. Charles Francis Adams,
wife of the Secretary of the Navy, when
in receiving in her stately drawing
room there looked down from the red
tapestried walls the we'll known por-
traits of John Adams. second President
of the United States; John Quincy
Adams and other members of the illus
trious family. with the equally we'll
known portrait Of Mrs. Abaigail Adams,
whose prolific family correspondence
furnishes the richest pages in early
White House history. Assisting Mrs.
Adams were Representative Edith
Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts,, Mrs.
Ernest Lee Jafncke, wife Of the As
David S. ingalls,, wife Of Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Aviation, and
Miss Macomb. Miss Alice Lowering,
sister of Mrs. Adams, who was expected
to be among those assisting, did not ar
rive in Washington until last evening,
and will remain with the Secretary and
Mrs. Adams for the Christmas season.
Mrs. Wilbur, wife OF the Secretary OF
Interior, wearing a deep rose-color vel
vet gown, received several hundred
guests, assisted by Mrs. Joseph NJ.
Dixon. wife of the Assistant Secretary
of Interior.
Mrs. Arthur M. Hyde, wife of the Sec
retary of Agriculture, was assisted at
intervals during the afternoon by her
young daughter, Miss Caroline Hyde,
and during the later part Of the recep-
ton hours the Secretary himself re-
ceived the callers, presenting them in
fireplace in her drawing room, the white
mantel shelf banked solidly with dainty
maidenhair fern, and on the tea table
in the adjoining room was cluster OF
exquisite yellow roses and tall, yellow,
lighted tapers. There were number OF
young girls assisting.
Mrs. Robert Patterson Lamont, wife
of the Secretary of Commerce, did not
receive as they are in the process of
establishing permanent home at 2l25
Kalorama road, and Mrs. Brown, wife
home in Toledo, Ohio.
Mrs. James JeDavis will not observe
her day at home until after the new
year, and being pretty well acquainted
with Washington society after more than
eight years in the cabinet as the wife
of the Secretary of Labor, she spent the
afternoon in calling upon others.
The italian Ambassador and Nobil de
MARITIME entertained at dinner last eve
ming at the embassy in honor Of
Representative and Mrs. John @. Til
son. The company included Senator
David I. Walsh, Representative and
Mrs. Sol Bloom. Miss Vera Bloom,
Representative Stephen G. Porter,
Representative and Mrs. James S.
Parker, Representative Ruth Bryan
Owen, Representative Ruth Pratt,
Representative Florence P. Kahn, the
secretary to the President and Mrs.
Lawrence Richey, Mr.. and Mrs. Mark
Sullivan, the secretary to the President
and Mrs. Walter Newton, Cavalier and
Signora Pasquale de Cicco, Signor Ma
sarelli, Gov. and Signora 2. Poll, Signor
Catatdo MazZa, Cavalier Uff. Emanuele
Grazzi and members of the embassy
staff including the counselor, Conte
Marchetti; the first secretary, Signor