Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-03
SOCIETY
President and Mrs. Hoover to Be Guests
of Congressional Club at Reception
Tuesday Evening of Next Week.

TIME President and Mrs. Hoove
will be the honor guests of thu
Congressional Club Tuesday eve.
Il ming at 9 o'clock at the clul
house, 2001 New Hampshire
The President and Mrs. Hoover will
entertain a company at dinner this
evening.
The Secretary of State and Mrs
Stimson entertained at dinner last eve
ming at their home, Woodley, when the
guests were the Ambassador of France
and Nine. Claudel, Mile. Claudel, the
Ambassador of Chile and Sonora de
Davila, the Minister of Switzerland and
Nine. Peter. the Minister of the Do
minion of Canada and Mrs Massey, the
Minister of Poland, MIR. Tytus Filipo-
wicz; the Secretary of the Interior and
Mrs. Wilbur. the Secretary of Agricul-
ture and Mrs. Hyde, the Secretary of
Labor and Mrs. Davis. DR.. and Mrs.
Vernon Kellogg, Miss Elizabeth Patter-
son and Mr.. Arthur w. Page.
Gifted Musician Sponsored BY
Distinguished Company at Recital.
The italian Ambassador and Nobil
Donna Antoinette de MARITIME are
among those who will attend the
recital this afternoon of Donna Or
tensia di Mignano, Countess Piercy, in
the Carlton Hotel at 4 o'clock. when
she will be assisted at the piano by
Mrs. Mildred Kolb Schulze. Others who
have taken boxes are Nine. Claudel,
wife Of the Ambassador of France: the
Minister of Rumania, Mr.. Charles A.
Davila; Mrs. Tracy Dows and Mrs.
George Mesta.
The Ambassador of Chile and Sonora
IL AxyslA he g. 1,a1. 1l1;ya Ewa
formally with them today.
The Belgian Ambassador and Princess
de Ligne with their two daughters
went to New York this morning and
the princess and her daughters will sail
The Ambassador will return to Wash
ington in a few days.
The Minister of the Netherlands and
Nine. van Royen will observe four Fri
day afternoons at home. January 10 and
- and February and 81.
The Secretary of War and Mrs.
Hurley will be the honor guests at din
ner this evening of Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
Briant H. Wells preceding the Army
dance at the Willard Hotel. In the
receiving line at the dance will be
Secretary and Mrs. Hurley, Gen. and
Mrs. Wells and Maj. and Mrs. Howard
c. Davidson.
Among others who will entertain at
dinner before the dance will be Col
and Mrs. John B. Shuman, who will
entertain in honor of the chief of staff
and Mrs. Charles P. Summerall; Gen.
and Mrs. Herbert B. Crosby, Gen. and
Mrs. Golden LII. Ruggles, Col. and
Mrs. Arthur w. Brown, Col. and Mrs.
Edmund B. Gregory, Col. Walter E.
Prosser. Mai. Layson E. Atkins and
Capt. and Mrs. Simpson r. Stribling.
The Minister of Hungary, Count
Laszlo Szechhenyi, and his daughters,
Countess Cornelia and Countess Alice
Szechenyi, will go to New York to-
morrow preparatory to sailing January 8
for Europe. Countess Szechenyi and
the other children will join them in
New York in time to sail with them.
Senator and Mrs. Patrick j. Sullivan
Of Wyoming returned to Washington
this morning from their home in Cas-
per and are in residence at the May
flower. Their daughter, Miss Margaret
Sullivan. Is making brief visit in Pitts
burgh and will join her parents at the
hotel tomorrow.
Mrs. Joseph Richardson Baker, wife
Of the Assistant Secretary of State, will
ernoon IN their apartment, 2032 Bel
mont road, from to 6 o'clock.
Mai. and Mrs. Parker w. West will
entertain company at dinner We'd
neSday evening.
Maj. and Mrs. West will be at home
Informally Sunday afternoon after
O'Clock and will receive in their quar-
tiers at Soldiers Home Sunday after
moons through January,
Miss Vera Bloom, daughter of Rep
fesentative and Mrs. Sol Bloom, will
entertain at the first of series Of in
formal suppers Sunday evening.
Midshipman William C. Butler, IT,,
has returned to the Naval Academy
after spending the holidays with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William C. But
Ter, at their home, 3917 Kansas avenue
Mrs. Deming Jarves entertained a
party Of 10 at dinner last evening at
the Carlton, where she is spending the
Winter with Princess Kira Of Russia.
wife Of Secretary Receives
At Navy Relief BAH.
The ball given annually by the Navy
Relief Society took place last evening
In the ball rooms Of the Willard Hotel,
having been postponed from its Gus
tomary place Thanksgiving night be-
cause of the official mourning for the
late Secretary of War Good. The scene
presented at these parties is always
gay and brilliant with the oficers in
dress uniforms and the military and
naval aides Of foreign embassies and
legations appearing in their court and
dress uniforms The ball room last eve