Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22
SOCIETY
NJ. Claudel, Ambassador of France, Return
ing to Washington Tomorrow After
Receiving Degree.

The Ambassador of France, M. Pau
Claudel, will return tomorrow morning
from New York, where he stopped off
en- route from Lewiston, Me-, where he
went to receive an honorary degree of
doctor Of laws at Bates College on
Monday.
He was the guest of L'Union St. Jean
Baptiste Society.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr..
Andrew w. Mellon, has purchased a box
for the disabled veterans of Walter
Reed Hospital for the eleventh annual
military Armistice Ball Of the Veterans
Of Foreign Wars of the United States,
Tuesday, November IL, at o'clock in
the evening, at the May1lower Hotel.
The Ambassador of Germany and
Frau Won Prittwttz und Gaffron are
arriving in New York on the Europa,
having spent the Summer abroad.
Minister of Venezuela
Host to United States Envoy.
The Minister of Venezuela, Senior Dr.
Don Pedro Manuel Arcaya, entertained
at dinner last evening at the Mayf1ower
in compliment to the United States
Minister to Venezuela, Mr.. George T.
Summerlin.
The company included Mr.. Walter C.
Thurston acting chief of the Latin
American division of the State Depart
ment; Mr.. Willis c. Cook, former United
States Minister to Venezuela; Senior
Luis Churion, counselor: Mr.. Pedro
MARQUEE, secretary, and Senior Pedro
Rivero, attache Of the legation Of Ven-
ezuela; also Mr.. Bolivar Lloyd, assistant
director of the Pan-American Sanitary
Bureau.
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman entertains at
q theater party this afternoon at the
Belasco, where the Denishawn Dancers
are playing.
Her guests are Sonora Dona Alfaro,
wife Of the Minister of Panama; Mime.
Prochnik, wife Of the Minister Of Aus
tria; Mrs. Guy v. Henry, Mrs. James
Carroll Frazer, Mrs. Frederick Anterior
and Mrs. Joseph Davies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Porter David
son will entertain at dinner this eve
ming in their house, in Georgetown, in
compliment to Mrs. T. J. Lewis of New
York, who Is in Washington for several
days.
Mrs. Randolph Keith Forrest has
closed her Summer home, Sunny Acres,
at Duxbury, Mass, where with other
members of the family she went after
the death Of Mr.. Forrest during the
Summer months. Just now Mrs. For
rest is closing her Virginia place, Oak
Shadows, and moving into her George
town house, 1411 Thirty-f1fth street, for
the Winter.
Miss Mark Parker Corning, daughter
Of Representative and Mrs. S. Parker
Corning, attended the luncheon yester-
day given by Mrs. Cecil Barrel, in New
York, for her daughter, Miss Audrey
Barrel.
The former Secretary of the Navy
and Mrs. Truman II. Newberry will ar
rive today on the Olympic.
RUDE Party Given to Debutantes
OF This Season by Past Debs.
Cob-webby attics, the old fashioned
ragbag and their grandmother's cedar
chest were raided by the debutante for
her regalia and "finery" to don for the
"tackey" dance given in her honor last
evening in the palm garden Of the May
flower by the girls of the shelf" or
debutantes Of past seasons. Every char
acter thinkable was represented. There
were artists. farmers, tramps, a comic
bride and bridegroom, rube base ball
player, policeman and endless "kikis" or
bowery ladies. There was q bit of
'Montmartre atmosphere" at the unique
party, with many Of the young ladies
smoking on the dancing floor, chewing
gum or carrying out her part as q
tough" even to her walk Several
men impersonating rube prizefighters,
characterized their part in a realistic
fistic performance in the center Of the
floor.
1t was q difficult task for the Judges
to decide on the "tackiest" costume, for
even the young ladies who tried so hard
to be ragged and tough, could not
get away from the fact that they are
dehutantes and really should look pretty
even Is tackles" Finally after much
debate the judges decided to give the
prize TO the lady wearing the most orig
NAL costume. This went to Miss Virginia
Glazebrook, debutante daughter of DR..
and Mrs. Larkin w. Glazebrook. Her
costumes represented several eras of
fashion, a lady Of Civil War days, the
colonial and bit passe of the present
period. She had on an old-fashioned
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