New Britain herald., 1929-03-23


 Italy, recalled her invitations for a tea to be given on Thursday after noon and will receive her guests instead on the following day.
 The smartest element of society l official. unofficial and otherwise will tread a gay measure on the night of Good Friday. when the Friday evening dancing class will hold it's last meeting of the season. will precede 1t. Senator and Mrs. Royal s. Copeland of New York. are giving dinner and dance Saturday night and others will entertain.
 Easter Monday will burst forth In a blaze of social glory when the Polo ball. sponsored by President Hoover. the Vice President, MT. Cur tis, the former President. Mr. Cool idge. the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir Esme Howard, all of the other ambassadors of the corps and the high officers of the army, will be given at the Willard.
 This is an annual event when the great ball room is transformed into a polo field with goal posts. boards such as surround field being placed just outside the box en- frances. The boxes will be decorated | with crossed mallets, and other im- piements of the sport. At one end | of the ball room will be several of the fayorite polo ponies in fancy | stalls to be fed and betted by society l women. The floor committee will be in riding togs and the members of the war department polo club will wear their gaily colored fiell clothes. Flags and whistles and in fact everything used on the polo field will be in evidence
 The President and Mrs. Hoover have entertainedSconsi ever since they entered the White House on March 1, but they gave out their first official list Wednesday when they entertained at luncheon the Secretary of State and Mrs. Kel- logg, the minixter of Bolivia. Senor Don Eduardo Dicz De Medina the charge d'affaires of Paraguay and Dr. Juan V. Ramirez. their ladies, and a number of other Latin -Ameri- cans.
 Mrs. Hoover is finding far more l time for her walks and other out side affairs than did Mrs Coolidge. | One afternoon she went to a local | gallery to see an exhibition of maps in gesso made by Mildred Giddings Durrage--and that is the first that Washington folk knew that the first !, lady of the land is an understanding admirer of ancient maps. The open- ing of the exhibition was turned into | a social tea and Mrs Archibald Hopkins who is entertaining the | artist in her home, was hostess.
 Now that Vice President Curtis is back from his Florida trip, his sis ter, Mrs. Edward F. Gam. is an- nouncing the date for the reception which they will give in honor of the diplomatic corps. Friday. April 12. has been selected and the Chinese room at the Mayflower, where they are living, will be used. Mrs. Gam will of course be the hostess. The custom of giving such reception by the vice president is an old one.
 Spring time grand opera is going off with flourish in the capital this season, and Mrs. Hoover will oc- cupy the presidential box. April IT, IS and 20 are the dates for the three nights and Mrs. Hoover chooses to hear Masscnets Man. on." with Mime. Lucrezia Bor, the beautiful Spanish prima donna. and Beniamino Gigli. tenor. she will also hear "Cavalleria Rusticana' and "Pagiiacci" on the second evening. Vice President Curtis and his sister. Mrs. Gam, have accepted a box for these two performances. Indeed the all society management, with Mrs. Robert Low Bacon as chairman. is highly delighted with the progress made in filling the boxes.
 Mrs. Kellogg, wife of the secre- tary of state, gave a reception in the Pan American building during the week so that the wives of the repre- sentatives of governments that sign ed the Kellogg anti-war pact and the wives of the chief of Latin American countries might meet the wives of the new cabinet members. Another large social affair was the New Year supper dance given by the Persian minister and his staff. First there was supper party, quite small. and then numerous guests came in for the dance. The minis ter. Mirza Davoud Khan Keftah. is charming. scholarly gentleman and delightful host and during the evening, he and the men of his staff who assisted him wore the red fex of their country.
 It was the first big affair in the new Persian legation. which is tn 2 residence on Sixteenth street occu- pied for many years as the Spanish embassy. One treads a bit of Per- sia on entering, for there are Per- sian rugs. and the rarest tapestries and pictures and other works of art of the country are on view. Be- cause the Persian new year cele- brates the arrival of spring. there were flowers in profusion.
 The several hundred invitations included the Amba ssa dor of Great Dritain and Lady Isahella Hnuard