Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-19

NRESIDENT ana MRS. Hoover
II entertained at luncheon today
in the White House, their guests
il being Mime. Rosa Ponsella. Miss
Marion Telva, Miss Wakefield,
M. Edward Ziegler, Mr.. Edward john
son. Mr.. Lawrence Tibbett, Mr.. Gui-
seppe de Luca, Mr.. Giacomo Lauri-
volpe, Mr.. Armand Tokatyan, Mr..
Paval Lardicar, Mr.. Vincenso Bellezza,
Mr.. Louis Hasselmans and Mr.. Mario
Basivla. The company included prin-
cipals from the Metropolitan Opera Co.
who have sung in washington during
this short season of opera and men,
bers of the national board of Girl
Scouts of America, in which Mrs.
Hoover is so deeply interested.
Mrs Hoover is entertaining about 200
guests at an afternoon musicale and
tea at the White House at o'clock to-
day. when Mr.. Lawrence Tibbett.
concert artist, will give a program
of vocal music. Mr.. Tibbett sang for
President and Mrs. Hoover some time
ago at their s street residence and to-
days event Is the result Of that delight
full program.
At 1880 o'clock today Mrs. Hoover
attended the dedication of the new D.
A. r. Constitution Hall on the grounds
of Continental Hall.
Mrs. Hoover occupied the presidential
box to hear the artists of the Metro
politan Opera Co. last night. She
wore a gown of a becoming shade of
pale blue chiffon simply made In grace
full drapery and over 1t she wore a
silver brocaded cloak.
Occupying the box with her were the
Secretary of the Interior Mr.. Ray Ly-
man Wilbur; Mrs. Walter F. Brown,
wife of the Postmaster General; Comdr.
and Mrs. Monroe, Mrs. Howard, Mr..
Baker, Mrs. Vernon Kellogg and Mrs.
Jean Henry Large and Mr.. William
Henry, sister and uncle Of Mrs.
Hoover.
Mrs. Gam Guest Of Honor
At Luncheon at Holm Hall.
Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, sister Of
the Vice President, was the guest OF
Harley Peyton Wilson, who entertained
In her country place, Holm Hall, near
Alexandria. The other guests were Mrs.
John B. Kendrick, Mrs. Charles P.
Summerall, Sonora de Gonzalez Prada.
Mrs, william r. Ham, Mrs. John Hanna,
Mrs Cloyd Heck Marvin, Mrs. William
D. ConnSS, Mrs. John w. ChildreSS,
Mrs. Karl D. Klemm, Mrs. Harold K.
Smoot, Mrs. Howard Sutherland, Mrs.
Edward Gregory, Mrs. Peter A. Drury,
Mrs. Emerson Howe, Mrs. Robert +.
Mackenzie, Mrs. Lucy Wilder Morris,
Mrs. william A. Scully, Mrs. Peyton
Leander Loose, Mrs. Conger Pratt, Miss
Elizabeth Howry and Mrs. Arthur M.
Condor.
Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, sister OF
the Vice President, was the guest OF
Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood in her
box at the opera last night. The Sec
rotary of Labor and Mrs. James j. Da-
Wis were again in the audience and
among the diplomats at the perfor-
nance were the Ambassador of Cuba
and Sonora de Ferrara, who had as
their guests Senator and Mrs. George
H. Moses; the Ambassador OF Chile
and Sonora de Davilla, the Ambassador
Of Germany and Frau Won Prittwitz
und Gaffron, the Minister of Uruguay
and his daughter, Senorita Adele Va
rela; the Minister of Hungary and
Countess Szechenyi and their daughter,
Countess Cornelia SZechenyi; the Min
lister of Greece and Nine. SimopouloS,
the Minister OF Austria and Nine.
Prochnik, and their daughter, Mile.
Loranda Prochnik; the Minister of Ru-
mania and his daughter, Mile. Cretziano;
the Minister of the Irish Free State and
Mrs. MacWhite. Mrs. William Howard
Taft, wife Of the Chief Justice, was
among those in the boxes. and the
Speaker Of the House, Nicholas Long
worth, was In q box nearby, as were Mr..
Justice and Mrs. Edward Terry Sand
ford, Representative and Mrs. Fred A.
Britten, Representative and Mrs. Robert
Low Bacon, Representative and Mrs. J.
Charles Linthicum, Representative and
Mrs. Sol Bloom and Miss Vera Bloom
Others in the audience were Mrs.
Stephen B. Elkins. Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Livingston CrounSe, Assistant Sec
rotary of State and Mrs. William r.
Castle, the air attache of the British
embassy and Mrs. Hetherington. Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney, Mr.. and
Mrs. HampSon Gary. Mrs. Victor Kauff-
mann, Nine. Won LewinSki, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Butterworth, Mrs. Nina Van
Wrinkle, Mr.. and Mrs. Wade H. Ellis,
Mr.. and Mrs. Percival McCeney-Wer-
Itch and the latter's mother, Mrs. Rob-
ert Hinckley: Mrs. James r. Mann. Mrs.
George Mesta. Mr.. william F. Dennis,
Mrs Charles Nelson Riker, Mrs. r. M.
Kauffmann. Miss Laura Harlan, Mr..
and Mrs. George Bowie Chapman, Mr..
and Mrs. Franklin Adams, Mrs. Karl
Klemrn, Miss Ann Randolph, Miss Bar
rine Drake, Mr.. William Phelps Emo,
Mr.. william Jennings Price, Mrs. Glib.
son Fahnestock, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest @.
walker, Mrs. Thomas r. Walsh. Mrs.
John Allan Dougherty, Mrs. William