Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18
Ball and Breakfast
By Hunt Club Classed
M As Brilliant Affair
Regarded as Fitting Climax
to Recent Horse Show.
Vice President Curtis
Present as Honor Guest.

The hunt ball and breakfast given
yesterday in the grand ball room of the
Maynower, as a hitting climax to the
horse show last week. drew forth the
majority of the. participants in this
annual sporting event of the National
Capital.
Upon arrival of Vice President Curtis
at the brilliant affair last night the
committee in charge of the ball, attired
in hunting pink, lined up to escort him
to the box which he occupied with Mrs
Jacob Leander Loose, who also enter
tanned him at dinner previously at the
Mayfiower.
Mrs. Loose's guests at dinner and at
the ball were, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Everett Gam, Minister of Albania
Mr.. Faik KonitZa, the Minister of
Czechoslovakia and Nine. Veverka, the
Minister of Nicaragua and Sonora de
SacaSa, former Secretary of Agricul-
ture and Mrs. William NJ. Jardine, Mrs
Rushmore Patterson, Mrs. Mason B.
Starring of New York, Mrs. Mason B.
Starring, jr.; Mr.. Charles Mason Remey
and Mr.. James M. Greene.
With the semblance of a real out-of-
doors affair. the guests, some of them
wearing full dress hunting attire and
others in less formal riding toys, began
arriving shortly after 10 o'clock, when
the call of the hunting horn and the
cracking Of the whips announced that
the horse show judges were ready to
award the handsome prizes to the
young ladies' and young mems Con
formation class" composed of Miss
Elvira johnson, Miss Frances Virginia
Waggaman, Miss Helen Walker, Miss
Engracia Freyer, Miss Katharine
GtPinnar al
Marjorie Talman, Miss Adelaide Henry,
Miss Mary Caroline Henry, Miss AIDE
laide Bride. Miss Meta Morris Evans,
Miss Alice Tweedy, Miss Dorothea Lane,
Miss Alice Good of New York and
others with their dashing escorts.
Mrs. Gam stood at the head of the
receiving line and greeted the guests in
her usual gracious manner as they were
presented by Mr. William Bowie Clarke,
chairman Of the ball. Others in the
receiving line were Mrs. Jacob Leander
Loose, Mrs William Mitchell, Mrs. ].
Wilmer Biddle, Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh,
Mrs. John Allan Dougherty and Mrs.
Williams Jeffries Chewing, jr.
Mrs. Loose wore q gown Of dahlia
color chiffon embroidered in beads of
the same shade. Mrs. Biddles gown
was OF white satin gracefully draped
and simply made. Mrs. Dougherty was
also in white satin, severely plain.
The former Ambassador to Russia
and Mrs. George T. Marye, who also
occupied box at the bali, following a
dinner given in honor of Mrs. j. VIII
mer Biddle, had as their other guests
Representative and Mrs. Hamilton Fish,
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Mark Bristol,
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Reginald
Nicholson, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Tucker
man, Mrs. Charles B. Howry, Mr.. Will
liam Bowie Clarke and Mr.. Walter
Davidge.
Mr.. Charles Delmar was host in his
box to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles McKenney,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jeffries Chewing,
jr.; Mr. and Mrs. John P. Jackson and
Mrs. John Allan Dougherty.
Among others occupying boxes were
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas w. Phillips, Mr..
and Mrs. william M. Ritter and Mrs.
George Wingfleld of San Francisco,
whose guests in addition to her daugh-
ter, Miss Jean Wingfleld, included MIR.
and Mrs. Charles Langley, Mr. and Mrs.
Forest Close of Richmond, Va; Lieut..
Chester Wood, United States Navy, and
Mr. Thomas Foote.
Added also to the decidedly horse
snowy atmosphere portrayed at the ball
was the presence of a brown mare that
occupied the center of the stage and on
which a spotlight was used at intervals
throughout the evening to emphasize
its presence.
Old English hunting songs were sung
by the guests during the serving OF
breakfast in the early morning hours
In the presidential dining room.
Among those at the ball were the
Cuban Ambassador and Sonora de Fer
rara, Assistant Secretary OF the Navy
Ernest Lee Jahncke, Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Ridley Mclean, Mrs. Casper Whit
ney and Miss Faith Whitney OF New
York, Representative A. H. Simms, Mrs.
Sydney A. Cloman, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ronald Fairfax. Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
M. Written, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Denegre. Mr.. William Phelps Emo, Brig.
Gen. william e. Horton, U. s. A: MIS-.
Melvin C. Hazen, DR.. Stanley johnson
of Maryland, Mrs. Richard Potts OF
Frederick, Nd; Mr.. G. Bascom Slemp,
Mr., wilbur Underwood, Lieut.. James G.
White, u. s. A.: Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Perot and Mrs. Karl D. Klemm-