Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
| 400 IN GORGEOUS COSTUMES
ATTEND ARTS CLUB BAL BOF1EME
Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, A. Robert Hill and
Thomas Hoover Awarded Prizes
for Their Costumes.

The most original costumes to receive
honorable mention were worn by A.
FiraZ, lunar athlete, and Paul Hunter, q
Moor, and Florence Hedges and Miss
Mary K. Bryan as couple Of Spring
onions
Mr.. and Mrs. willoughby Chesley were
hosts in their box to Mr.. and Mrs. Karl
George Cecil, Mrs. l.. E. Moran, Mrs.
! Charles ONeil. Mrs. Guy Dove, Mrs.
Mary DodSon and Mrs. Frank Roberts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl A. Drop had with
them in their box Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
LIE Fevre, Col. and Mrs. DanderSon and
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton MCGUIRE.
Comdr and Mrs. Smith G.. Hempstone
entertained among their guests Mr.. and
Mrs Ralph Graves, Miss Prentice, Mr..
Cummins and Mr.. Lewis.
Col and Mrs. John Otto johnson and
Mr.. and Mrs. Fulton Lewis occupied a
box and among those with them were
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford K. Bergman,
Miss Florence Bergman and Mrs. VIII
liam Wheatley.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Koones were
hosts to Mrs. Pembroke Pitts, Miss
Frederick of Baltimore, Mrs. George
Furman and Mrs. John Elvans Mayfleld.
LeiSenrings Have Guests.
The president of the Arts Club, Mr..
L. Morris LeiSenring, and Mrs. Lessen
ring had among their guests in their
box Representative and Mrs. Frank Bos-
ley Crother, Miss Nancy Crowther, Mr..
Warwick Keegan.
Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose was host
eSs in her box to Representative and
Mrs. Fred A. Britten, the Surg. Gen.
and Mrs. Merritte w. Ireland, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Hutchinson. /. Cone
and Gen. William E. Horton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Richards had
among her guests debutantes who took
part in the Masque Of Louis XIII, in
GLIDING Miss Betty Richards, Miss Mary
Stuart Birdsall, Miss Mariene Musser,
Miss Frances Morse and Miss Betty Ed
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Jay Staley were
hosts to Representative and Mrs. Carl
r. Chindblom, Miss Ruth Chindblom,
Representative James O'Connor, Judge
and Mrs. oscar E. Bland and Mrs.
Mary L. Burford.
Mrs Edward Hood Watson enter
tanned in her box the Minister of AL
bania. Mr.. Faik Konitza; Lieut.. Col
and Mrs. Allen w. Gullion, Maj. and
Mrs. Hobart H. Hawkins, Mrs. Ollie
James, Mrs. Matte Wyatt Porter, Maj
Arthur Heffernan, Maj William luther
ley and Mr.. E. Price Porter.
MIR. William F. Baker, chairman OF
the Ball Committee, had with him In
his box the judges, Mr.. M. r. Ha1der,
Austrian portrait painter; Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick H. Brooke and Mr.. Robert
Downing with Mrs. Haider and Miss
Carmen Haider, Miss Harriet Garrels,
chairman of costumes for the ball, and
Miss Sibyl Baker, chairman OF the
committee which chose the Committee
of Judges of Costumes.
Princess Boncompagni Present.
Others in boxes were Princess Bon
compagni, Mrs. Robert Hinckley, Miss
Grace Burton, Miss Lucia Hollerith,
Miss Clara Saunders, Miss Frances Ban
jamin Johnston, Mrs. Gilbert H. Gros-
venor, Mr.. and Mrs. Christian Heurich,
DR.. and Mrs. Richard La Garde, Miss
Helen Mcclellan, Mrs. Asa Phillips, Mrs.
A. Geary johnson and the Misses
SolomonS.
Among the particularly interesting
costumes was the Nellie Gusts dress
worn by Mrs. Robert E. Lee, the rarest
of old lace adjoining the bodice.
Mr.. James M. Long of Boston wore
an authentic Egyptian costume; Mr..
Murray Sheehan, Bavarian peasant
dress; Mr.. Beverley Humphreys Harris,
striking Moorish costume, with a
flowing cape of flaming red.
The hot supper served on the lower
floor Of the Willard, with the guests
seated at round tables, spoke well for
the chairman of this particular feature
of the evening, Mr.. Henry J. Staley.
The guests were served in relays, sew
eral hundred at time being accommo-
dated.
Clergymen Attend.
Members Of the clergy of the city
who attended the Bal Boheme were
Rev. Leon Sherrer, Rev. DR.. George
Atkinson, Rev. James T. Anderson and
Rev. Meade Bolton MacBryde.