Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-14

n day and are expected 10 arIiVe
in New York the first of the
week. They viii come to washington
Immediately after their arrival.
Netherlands Envoy Opens
Rare Exhibit in New York.
The Minister of the Netherlands, Mr..
J. H. van Royen, will go to Brooklyn,
N. Y, today TO attend the opening OF
an exhibition Of portraits and curioSitieS
of Java and Bali He win return to
the city after the exhibit.
Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom
recalled invitations for the dinner to-
night in honor Of the Ambassador OF
Germany and Frau Won Prittwitz unu
Gaffron, owing to the official mourning.
Mrs. Bacon, wife Of Representative
Robert Low Bacon, was hostess 70
small company informally at luncheon
Yesterday. her guests being representa-
tiyes of local papers and members OF
the board of trustees of the Washington
Opera Association, Incorporated, OF
which Mrs. Bacon is chairman. The
Washington Opera Association, with
Mrs. Bacon as chairman, is sponsoring
the short season of Metropolitan opera,
which will be given in the Fox Theater,
April %, "a and IS. The officers OF the
association, in addition to Mrs. Bacon,
are Mrs. George Mesta, vice chairman;
Mrs. Tracy bows, treasurer; Mr.. Andrew
Wylie, secretary, and Mrs. WILSON,
Greene, manager. The board OF trus-
tees includes Mrs. Bacon, Mrs. Dows,
Mrs. Mesta, Mr. Wylie and MRS. James
F. Parker, Mrs. Charles ]. Bell, Mrs.
Franklin II. Ellis, Mrs. Lawrence Town
send and Miss Elizabeth Butler Howry,
who acted as secretary for the COM
mittee which sponsored the perform
anceS Of the Metropolitan opera last
season.
Mrs. Bacon, as chairman Of the asso-
citation, Is sending out Invitations" to
large number of prominent Washing
tonians to become guarantors. OF in
tereSt tn those willing to guarantee the
performances OF opera Is the recent rul-
ing OF the commissioner of internal rev.
enue that contributions made to the or
ganization, including amounts paid by
guarantors to cover losses Of the assOcia-
ton, constitute allowable deductions in
the Federal income tax return Of in
dividual donors"
The guarantors so far listed include
the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr..
Mellon; Countess Szechenyi, wife of
the Minister of Hungary; the Speaker
OF the House. Representative Nicholas
Longworth; Senator Lawrence G.
PhippS, Senator Frederic D. Walcott,
Representative Henry Winfield Watson,
Representative Schuyler Merritt, Rep
resentative James s. Parker, Repre-
sentative Richard S. Aldrich, Rep
sentative Sol Bloom, Mr.. Eugene Meyer,
Mr.. Frank r. Jelleff, Mrs. Elmer
Schlesinger, Mrs. Christian Heurich,
Princess Boncompagni, Mrs. James F.
Curtis, Mr.. William Phelps Emo, Mrs.
William Corcoran Eustis, mrs. Keith
Merrill, Mrs. Armistead Peter, Sd; Mr..
James Parmelee, Mrs. Gibson Fahne-
B. Spencer, Mr.. Leander Mccormick
Goodhart, Mrs. Henry Barton, Mr.. and
Mrs. william Mcclellan Ritter, Mrs.
Stokes Halkett, Mrs. Hennen Jennings,
Mr.. Thomas Sweeny, Mrs. David st.
Pierre GaiIlard, Mrs. Copley Amory,
Mrs. Charles j. Bel, Mrs. George MeSta,
Mr.. George Garrett, Mr.. D. j. O'Brien,
Mrs. Thomas j. Phillips. IT.; Mrs. John
F. wilkins and The Evening Star.
Representative and Mrs. Morton D.
Hull left yesterday for their home In
Chicago and wiz be absent q week.
The Assistant Secretary of War and
Mrs. F. Trubee Dawson win return to
Washington today from q few days
stay at White Sulphur Springs, w. Va,
where they went by motor.
Senorita Carmen Teresa Grisanti,
daughter Of the Minister OF Venezuela,
entertained at luncheon yesterday at
the Carlton, her guests numbering I'VE.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John A. Hull,
who will leave for the Philippines soon,
were the guests In whose honor Col
Wade Fl. Cooper entertained 4t dinner
In his home on Massachusetts avenue.
last evening. Others in the party were